DISQUALIFIED driver Carla Joanne Powell was stopped by police as she fled a violent domestic argument, a court was told.
Blackburn magistrates heard that the BAE Systems admin clerk was heading for the refuge of her father's home. But she accepted that she should have used alternative transport.
She was told that she had come perilously close to going to prison for her third offence of driving while disqualified.
Powell, 25, of Foxhouse Street, Blackburn, pleaded guilty to driving while disqualified and without insurance.
She was made subject to a two year community rehabilitation order, disqualified from driving for three years and fined £200 with £55 costs.
Daniel King, defending, said: "She was panicking and she wanted to get to the refuge of her father's house and she took the car.
"She obviously should not have done that, she should have taken a taxi or public transport, but she was not thinking straight."
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