Another young driver has passed up the chance of a cheap motor insurance quote after being involved in a high speed police chase.
24-year-old Lloyd John Yates, from Denbigh in North Wales, picked up a police tail when his Mercedes was clocked speeding up a hill outside Bylchau.
In the chase which followed, oncoming cars frequently had to swerve to avoid the young Welshman as he took corners in the wrong lane.
Then after several miles, Yates turned off the main roads and onto a single-track lane where pursuing police were able to overtake him and bring the Mercedes to a halt.
When they forced open his driver's door, officers said the car reeked of alcohol. After struggling out of his seatbelt, the clearly inebriated Yates then fell out of his car in a scene reminiscent of Brian Harvey's self-inflicted motoring gaffe back in 2005.
After failing the proffered breathalyser test he croaked: "You ain't got nothing."
The statement turned out to be false. Yates was jailed for four months and issued a three year driving ban.
Motor insurance quote maestro Mike Page, a spokesman for Hoot Car Insurance Services, said: "I see cases like this with depressing regularity on British roads.
"At Hoot we do everything we can to find young drivers the cheapest car insurance quotes going, but drink-drivers like Lloyd Yates make our job harder and harder."