A teenager drove at more than twice the speed limit during a police chase.

Kyle Kavanagh, 18, pleaded guilty to one count of dangerous driving following the chase through Radcliffe in August 2021.

Kavanagh, of Munn Road, Manchester, was spotted by police while driving a silver Ford Focus with a passenger, prosecutor Craig MacGregor told Minshull Street Crown Court on Tuesday.

The court heard the officers sped up in an attempt to stop Kavanagh, whose car had a cracked number plate.

After officers activated their police car's siren and lights, Kavanagh failed to slow down and was seen driving at 57mph in a 30mph zone on Radcliffe New Road before driving on the wrong side of the carriage way.

Kavanagh approached Whitefield Police Station on Bury New Road where he reached speeds of 70mph in a 30mph zone, before driving over a kerb which flattened the car’s tyres.

Mr MacGregor said Kavanagh was aged 17 at the time of the offence and that he had previously been convicted of driving under the influence of drugs.

He added: “There was a police chase, there was a disregard for public safety."

Peter Malone, defending, told the court that Kavanagh had pleaded guilty at the earliest opportunity and was taking steps to turn his life around.

He said: “Mr Kavanagh is someone who is remorseful and regretful about what he has done.

“He wants to put everything behind him.”

“He has future aspirations becoming an electrician.”

Judge Elliot Knopf handed Kavanagh a 10-month jail sentence, suspended for two years, and ordered him to attend a thinking skills course and to undertake a rehabilitation activity course and 150 hours of unpaid work in the community.

He told Kavanagh: “I’m not going to send you to custody today.”

“You are still a young man, it is said that you feel remorse and regret.”

Noting the severity of the offence, Judge Knopf added: “You posed a very high risk of harm to yourself and your passenger and to other road users.

“It was perhaps chance and good fortune that you did not cause injury to any other person or to yourself.”

He has been disqualified from driving for two years after which he must pass a driving test to regain his licence.