A SPEEDING teenager who led police on a car chase also left an officer injured in a separate ‘moment of madness’, a court was told.

Labourer Liam James Davison, a 19-year-old new father, was driving in a built-up area and went through red lights in the pursuit on Halifax Road, Brierfield, on July 24.

He caused a grazed elbow to the officer when he tried to arrest him two weeks later, Burnley magistrates heard.

Davison, of Pinewood Drive, Nelson, has now been ordered off the road for two years and must take an extended retest before he is allowed back behind the wheel.

The defendant admitted dangerous driving and failing to stop for a constable on July 24, and allegations of resisting police at Nelson, on August 5.

He was given a community order, with 200 hours unpaid work and must pay £50 compen-sation and £85 costs.

The bench told him he could have been a danger to other road users, but he had not done anything like it before.

The court was told Davison had a previous conviction from 2006, but had not been in trouble since.

Nick Cassidy, defending, said: “This was not one moment of madness. It appears to be two.”