Indian-origin teenager jailed in UK for crashing stolen Range Rover

An Indian-origin teenager was sentenced to 4 years in jail for driving a stolen Range Rover the fallacious means down a tunnel in London after which inflicting a head-on collision, Scotland Yard mentioned on Tuesday.

Johal Rathour, 18, was recognized by the Metropolitan Police’s Road and Transport Policing Command after he precipitated the crash within the early hours of August 6 final 12 months and was sentenced at St. Albans Crown Court in north London final Friday.

The Met Police mentioned “luckily” no critical accidents had been precipitated to the driving force of the Mercedes van Rathour crashed into.
“Rathour was guilty of an incredibly dangerous piece of driving and it was a miracle that nobody was seriously injured,” mentioned Police Constable Adam Lamb, the investigating officer within the case.

“Watching the video of him driving the wrong way through the tunnel is very distressing as it seems inevitable that a fatal collision would happen. As well as the damage to the stolen vehicle and the van he collided with, Rathour also disrupted and delayed the journeys of thousands of people using Blackwall Tunnel on the day of the crash,” he mentioned.

#WATCH | This is the second a harmful driver drove the fallacious means by means of the Blackwall Tunnel.

18-year-old Johal Rathour has jailed after crashing right into a van in August final 12 months.

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“I am glad that he has faced justice for his actions and will not be able to drive on the roads of London for many years,” he added.

The courtroom was informed that Rathour precipitated GBP 80,000 of harm to the Mercedes van he crashed into and the stolen Range Rover he was driving. He additionally precipitated a complete lack of revenues price GBP 585,000 to Transport for London, because of the busy Blackwall Tunnel in east London having to be shut for greater than two hours throughout rush hour.

Rathour ran away from the scene of the crash however was later arrested after cops forensically recognized him and tracked his cell phone.

After he was charged with the offences of theft and harmful driving, Rathour didn’t attend courtroom. He was subsequently tracked down and arrested by Met Police officers from the East Area Command Unit in January this 12 months and has now resulted in a custodial sentence.