A DRUG-driver from Bury who smashed a stolen car into three other vehicles has been jailed for 26 weeks.
Daniel Raymond Clarke, 36, has also been banned from driving for 36 months by Manchester magistrates as a result of the wrecking spree.
Magistrates ruled that only a custodial sentence could be justified as Clarke's Audi A3 had caused "severe damage" to other cars. he had three different kinds of drugs in his system at the time, he had a passenger in his own car and had no legitimate driving documents at the time.
Clarke took an Audi A3 on October 17 last year and collided with a VW Passat, Peugeot 206, Toyota Auris and a VW Caddy during his reckless driving stint.
The motorist, of Palace Street, Pimhole, had pleaded guilty to taking a motor vehicle without authority, driving without due care and attention in the Rochdale Road area of Bury, having no driving licence and having no insurance.
He also admitted to driving in excess of the prescribed limits for cocaine and metabolites of cannabis, on the same occasion.
Clarke also entered a guilty plea to having an excess of benzoylecgonine, a cocaine compound, in his blood.
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