A Rothwell teenager who drove like a "lunatic" during a high-speed police chase said it was like playing a game on his PlayStation, a court heard.
* Click here to sign up to free news and sport email alerts from Rothwell Today.Adam Green sped through red lights and on the wrong side of the road while fleeing five police cars at over 60mph in 30mph zones, during the pursuit from Castleford to Leeds.
Prosecutor, Carmel Pearson told Leeds Crown Court that Green reached speeds of 70mph after police spotted him driving a friend's van in Castleford in the early hours of July 28.
Eight days earlier Green had been arrested for taking another vehicle without the owner's consent.
Green, of Fourth Avenue, Rothwell, led police through Whitwood, Cutsyke, Glasshoughton and Castleford. He was arrested near Methley after he hit a kerb puncturing a tyre.
James Keeley, for Green, said his client had decided to go out in the early hours to buy cigarettes.
Judge Terence Walsh told Green he had driven like an "absolute lunatic".
Judge Walsh said remarks by Green to probation staff that the chase had, after a while, seemed like a PlayStation game, were frightening.
He told Green: "This is real life. An accident at those speeds in those conditions could end with somebody dead."
Green was sentenced to 150 hours unpaid work and banned from driving for three years. He had admitted dangerous driving.
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