A drug driver crashed into a car containing a mother and her three children during a police chase and shouted at her "Move your f****** car, the f****** police are chasing me. I'm on the run." He then fled from his car and had to be tracked down by a police helicopter.

Attempts were made to stop Colin Dixon, 27, who was driving a Ford Transit between the Heads of the Valleys Road and Rhymney on February 4. Two police cars approached the vehicle at traffic lights, but the defendant reversed into one of the cars, causing damage.

A sentencing hearing at Newport Crown Court on Monday heard Dixon manoeuvred his car onto the pavement and drove through a red light at speed. F or the latest court reports sign up to our crime newsletter .

He proceeded to knock over traffic cones, one o

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