Cops chased speeding driver

A Buchlyvie motorist carried out a series of erratic manoeuvres on Stirling roads at excessive speed while pursued by a police car with its emergency lights and siren activated.

Gary Hugh Dall, of Station Road, had originally been accused of a charge of driving dangerously on Bannockburn Road, Firs Entry, Morrison Drive, Glasgow Road, and elsewhere, at a grossly excessive speed on February 23 last year.

However, the 34-year-old pleaded guilty last month to an amended charge of driving without due care and attention, from which mention of grossly excessive speed was deleted.

The charge to which Dall had pleaded guilty stated that he had straddled the central line of the road before overtaking a slower vehicle while negotiating a bend in the carriageway.

He then drove through areas of surface water at excessive speed before driving along a single track road, again at excessive speed.

The charge added‘and all this you did while being pursued by a marked police vehicle which was displaying emergency lights and sirens and signalling to stop’.

Dall further admitted a charge of driving while more than three times over the alcohol limit on Moss Road, Larbert, on the same date.

He had driven while the proportion of alcohol in his breath was 76mg in 100ml of breath. The limit being 22mg.

Dall did not appear for sentence at Stirling Sheriff Court on Wednesday morning and Sheriff Wyllie Robertson granted a warrant for his arrest.