A dangerous driver badly injured a police officer as he struggled to escape following an incident when he crashed head-on into another car on a busy Dudley roundabout.
Lorenzo Brown had been due to stand trial after pleading not guilty at Warwick Crown Court to dangerous driving and inflicting grievous bodily harm with intent to evade arrest.
The charges follow an incident in January last year when Brown (27) of Ripley Grove, Dudley, led the police on a brief high-speed chase along Stourbridge Road.
A police car video showed a BMW driven by Brown crossing the central reservation during the Sunday lunchtime pursuit on 26 January and continuing on the wrong side of the dual carriageway.