Evening Telegraph (First Edition)
Dangerous driver smashed into bin
Graham Hogg, 28, didn’t hold a licence or insurance when he was seen driving dangerously on Pitkerro Drive and the Kingsway.
Hogg, of Dundee’s Drumlithie Place, failed to stop for police when asked to do so.
After crashing into a dog waste bin, he left the scene without leaving his details.
It took officers several days to track Hogg down before he was arrested and charged over the rampage.
Appearing at Dundee Sheriff Court, he pleaded guilty to driving a car without insurance and without a full licence at Kingsway and Pitkerro Road on January 6.
He further admitted that he drove a car dangerously by driving at excessive speed, failing to stop when requested to do so by a marked police car with activated blue lights and then colliding with a bollard and bin, causing damage, and failing to leave his personal details.
Following the crash, locals told of seeing a car being “chased” by police units down Pitkerro Drive.
It was then seen to smash through the bollard and on to a grassy area at a dead end halfway down the street.
Local resident Nicola Rennie said she saw three police cars at the scene, with a police dog searching for those who had been in the vehicle, after hearing a “big screech” shortly before 8pm.
She told the Tele: “The car was going really fast — I would easily say about 70mph.
“I thought he was going to come through my wall. “I really got a fright.” She also described how the driver involved had “bolted” and police had gone to look for him.
Other locals told of hearing a huge bang which sounded like an “explosion”.
One woman added: “That’s the third time one of those bollards has been taken out in about 10 years.
“If there had been kids playing there they could’ve been hit by the car.”
Hogg will return to court on May 18 to be sentenced.
A LEARNER driver smashed into a bin and a bollard after a high-speed police chase on a 30mph street.