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Black Country driver tasered by police during diabetic trance after losing control

POLICE tasered a Rowley Regis driver after he lost control of his car in Dudley in a diabetic trance.

Gareth Davies narrowly missed hitting workmen and a pedestrian whilst just avoiding a head on crash with a bus.

The 55-year-old later told police he was in "something like a dreamlike state" as he drove through traffic lights on red and clipped the kerb during the ten minute pursuit.

He admitted to the officers he was diabetic and he had been "feeling funny."

Geoffrey, Dann prosecuting, said: "The manner of his driving was entirely consistent with a hypoglycemic attack."

Wolverhampton Crown Court Recorder Jacqueline Carey told Davies, of Union Street, she had given serious consideration to sending him straight into custody because of his "seriously bad driving."

She added: "After hearing about you and your ill health I do not think it would be in the public interest to put you in prison immediately."

Davies admitted dangerous driving and he was given a 12 month jail term suspended for two years and disqualified from driving for two years.

Mr Dann said the manner of Davies' driving so alarmed another motorist that he called the police after seeing his Vauxhall Vectra veer along New Rowley Road, Dudley.

He said: "The car was travelling in an erratic manner and hitting the kerb."

"The man who was following the Vectra assumed its driver was either drunk or high on drugs."

Police then took up the chase and an officer told Davies to stop but he ignored the order and went through to more sets of lights on red around Castle Hill.

The chase finally ended when Davies was trapped in a cul-de-sac but he then had to be tasered before he could be detained.

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