09-05-2025
Footage shows van driver ramming police cars in Mansfield
Police footage shows the moment a van driver rammed into cars as he made his getaway from Barnes ran red lights, drove on the wrong side of the road, and sped anti-clockwise around a roundabout in Mansfield, 40-year-old's driving was so erratic and dangerous that pursuing police decided to abort their chase, Nottinghamshire Police Wednesday at Nottingham Crown Court, Barnes, of Vale Road, Mansfield Woodhouse, received a 15-month prison sentence, suspended for two years, for dangerous driving.
His passenger Laura Tomlinson, 39, also of Vale Road, was found guilty of being carried in a vehicle without the owner's consent, and was given a community order requiring her to participate in drug said they had received reports the van had been taken without the owner's Ford Transit was spotted travelling towards Mansfield Woodhouse at about 09:30 BST on 2 June accelerated away from police, leaving a "trail of broken wing mirrors in his wake", police van was left with a damaged door flapping as Barnes hit police cars and other vehicles.
After police called off their chase, the smashed-up van was abandoned in Edale Road, Mansfield, and Barnes and Tomlinson were found in a locked storeroom in a nearby block of Rachel Evans said Barnes' driving was "completely unacceptable" and "put everyone else on the roads in danger".
