Banned driver Paul Richardson was in car bearing false plates A BANNED driver crossed grassed areas and pedestrian walkways in a bid to escape police in a car bearing false registration plates. During the six-minute pursuit Paul Richardson travelled at speeds of up to 60-miles per hour in 30-limit residential streets of Peterlee, both on and off road. The serial driving offender was in a Volkswagen Bora which police national computer checks revealed was carrying the registration plate for a Vauxhall Corsa. He was seen at the wheel wearing a blue baseball cap, with two passengers, near the junction of Willerby Grove and Burnhope Way, Peterlee, at 2.30pm on March 25.
Defendant tried to reverse ram police vehicle four times during chase A WHITE van driver whose vehicle was bearing false number plates reverse rammed police vehicles pursuing him four times during a seven-minute chase, a court heard. Banned driver John Dean Hall drove at “grossly excessive speed”, flouting a number of traffic regulations and endangering other road users while trying to outrun police between Peterlee and Easington Colliery, in the incident on Tuesday October 13. Durham Crown Court heard that police on motor patrol in Peterlee identified Hall driving a Ford Transit van, bearing false plates, travelling at excessive speed, on Burnhope Way, on Tuesday October 13.