The man who caused a “catastrophic collision” which led to “regional traffic chaos” after failing to stop for police has been sentenced to 14 months’ detention.

Mazyar Azarbonyad, 20, personal trainer, pleaded guilty to dangerous driving following the crash, which wrecked five police cars and left seven officers needing hospital treatment, on the A1 west of Newcastle upon Tyne in the early hours of April 9.

During his sentencing at Newcastle Crown Court on Monday, June 2, Judge Tim Gittins said: “It is nothing short of a miracle that no one was more seriously injured or that there were not multiple fatalities.”

The court heard that one officer suffered soft tissue damage to her knee and nerve damage to her back, requiring her to remain in hospital for three days, and another needed stit

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