HARDLY a day goes by that judges and magistrates in Bolton don't deal with dangerous driving offences.

In recent weeks a number of cases have been covered by The Bolton News.

- Hamas Husain was sentenced to four months in prison, suspended for a year after pleading guilty to dangerous driving and other motoring offences. He had been using cannabis and crashed his Mitsubishi into railings on Chorley Old Road during a police chase.

- Kelly Sumner will be sentenced in January after admitting seriously injuring cyclist Stephen Derbyshire on Lever Park Avenue, Horwich. She had taken cocaine before driving.

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Usaamah Taha was sentenced to 22 months in prison for dangerous driving during a police chase through Bolton. He failed to turn up at court and has been on the run for more than a year.

- Christopher Russ drove a stolen Mini at up to 84mph in a residential area. He was sentenced to 12 months in a young offenders' institution.

- Michael Goodridge is due to be sentenced later this month after admitting dangerous driving next to a children's playground. He was doing donuts and children had to flee out of his way.

- Thomas Humphreys, from Farnworth, was sentenced to one years and eight months in prison after admitting dangerous driving. He had been at a car meet in Trafford Park where teenager Sophie Smith died.

- Part time soldier Wayne Green admitted dangerous driving. He drove at speed through Bolton during a police chase after stealing his mother's car. He was sentenced to eight months in prison, suspended for 12 months and must do 200 hours unpaid work.

- Daniel Naylor crashed a stolen Mini into a Parcel Force van while fleeing police in Bromley Cross. He had to be airlifted to hospital but, a year later committed another dangerous driving offence. He was sentenced to six and a half years in prison for offences including the dangerous driving.