POlice pursuit of car ended when it drove over stinger device and crashed into tree OFFICERS in a stationary police vehicle were alerted to a car being driven at high-speed through a village in the early hours of the morning. The police car set off in pursuit, with its blue lights activated, but the Nissan X-Trail, driven by unlicensed Keron Anthony Luke, carried on regardless, heading southwards through Wingate, at 3am on January 16 last year. Durham Crown Court was told Luke drove straight over a mini-roundabout, nearly colliding with a police van heading in the opposite direction and reached 70-miles per hour on a 30-limit stretch of the B1280, turning the headlights off entering neighbouring Station Town.