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A man has been jailed for deliberately driving his car into a man on a stationary scooter.
Omar Harris turned his black Kia into a weapon when he smashed into the rider in broad day light.
The 33-year-old got out of the vehicle unharmed while the victim fled the scene on foot.
The incident happened just after 2pm on 1 August in Eagle Way, Northstowe.
Harris was called by his girlfriend to the street after an argument she was having with the victim began to escalate. While on route to the scene Harris also crashed into a parked Fiat 500 in Stirling Road causing considerable damage to the vehicle but failed to stop and report it.
When he arrived in Eagle Way he mounted the pavement in the Kia, throwing the victim off his scooter, before flipping the vehicle onto its side and into a house.
The victim, a teenage bo, suffered superficial injuries to his legs, arms and back.
At Peterborough Crown Court yesterday (3 February) Harris, of no fixed address, was sentenced to two years and three months in prison after previously pleading guilty to attempted grievous bodily harm and dangerous driving. He is also disqualified from driving for a year and 10 months and has been given an indefinite restraining order not to contact the victim.
Detective Constable Callum Fullwood, who investigated, said: “The level of violence used by Harris in this case was appalling. He used his car as a weapon and can consider himself lucky that no one was killed and that no other innocent members of the public were injured by his reckless actions.”
Footage of the collision can be viewed on our YouTube channel.