Banned van driver reverse rammed police car four times
Defendant tried to reverse ram police vehicle four times during chase A WHITE van driver whose vehicle was bearing false number plates reverse rammed police vehicles pursuing him four times during a seven-minute chase, a court heard. Banned driver John Dean Hall drove at “grossly excessive speed”, flouting a number of traffic regulations and endangering other road users while trying to outrun police between Peterlee and Easington Colliery, in the incident on Tuesday October 13. Durham Crown Court heard that police on motor patrol in Peterlee identified Hall driving a Ford Transit va...