Uninsured learner driver on cocaine crashes car while trying to escape Tipperary gardaí

The Tipperary Roads Policing Unit were out on patrol Monday morning June 17 when they spotted an uninsured car.

When the Gardaí went to pull over the driver, they drove off and lost control of the car and collided with a fence, narrowly missing a house.

It turned out the driver was an unaccompanied learner driver with no insurance. Following a roadside drug test, the driver also tested positive for cocaine.

The car, which was subsequently seized, had a “dangerously bald tyre” and no valid NCT. The driver was also arrested at the scene.

A spokesperson from An Garda Síochána said: “Tipperary Roads Policing Unit were on patrol when their number plate recognition system picked up this uninsured car.

“When we went to pull in the driver, he drove off and eventually lost control of the car colliding with a fence, narrowly missing a house.

“This learner driver tested positive on the roadside for cocaine. He had no insurance and was also unaccompanied. The car, which has now been seized, had a dangerously bald tyre and no valid NCT. The driver was arrested,” concluded the spokesperson.