Joe SkirkowskiBBC News, Bristol<\/p>\n
WATCH: Moment police caught up with Bryan Smith<\/p>\n
The moment police caught up with a man and tasered him following a high speed car chase has been captured on camera.<\/p>\n
Bryan Smith, 47, from Easton, reached speeds of 70mph, went the wrong way around a roundabout and mounted pavements as officers pursued him through residential areas in Bristol on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
He appeared at Bristol Magistrates’ Court earlier where he pleaded guilty to dangerous driving and other driving offences. He will be sentenced at Bristol Crown Court on 9 October.<\/p>\n
The dramatic footage of Smith’s arrest appeared on social media having been filmed by two men sitting in a car Smith had just hit.<\/p>\n
“Whilst I appreciate that for the public it may seem a bit scary and concerning at times when they see these things happening, I want to reassure them that the officers that are doing this activity are well trained and they know what they’re doing,” said Insp Matt Boiles, from Avon and Somerset Police.<\/p>\n
Mr Boiles said police may also deploy devices such as stingers to deflate car tyres and end chases safely.<\/p>\n
As well as dangerous driving, Smith admitted driving while disqualified, driving without insurance and failing to provide a blood sample for testing. <\/p>\n
Magistrates heard how Smith had unknowingly bought the Volkswagen Scirocco – which had been stolen in Yate on 29 August – days before the pursuit.<\/p>\n
In the footage, officers from Avon and Somerset Police can be seen surrounding the blue car and using their batons to smash the driver’s window before tasering Smith.<\/p>\n
It was on the other side of Bristol, in Hengrove, when an officer first noticed Smith’s Volkswagen had false number plates on and tried to get him to pull over.<\/p>\n
When Smith failed to stop, a helicopter was brought in to assist in the chase – which came to an end in Fishponds.<\/p>\n
Smith was not granted bail and will be remanded in custody.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Joe SkirkowskiBBC News, Bristol WATCH: Moment police caught up with Bryan Smith The moment police caught up with…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":398041,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8818],"tags":[381,748,393,4884,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-398040","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bristol","8":"tag-bristol","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115147698612539889","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=398040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398040\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/398041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=398040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=398040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=398040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}