FOOTAGE has emerged of a dangerous car chase through Orford that resulted in a drug driver being tasered and arrested.

Appearing before Liverpool Crown Court, Mark Taylor - of Dovedale Close, Orford - was sentenced to 12 months in prison and given a two-year driving ban after he stole his friend of 20 years' car.

Footage has been released by Cheshire Police to the Warrington Guardian; one video shows the dangerous car chase that Taylor led officers on, and another shows Taylor being tasered before he is arrested by officers on November 8 last year.

Warrington Guardian: Mark Taylor, 38, was sentenced to 12 months in prison, and has been banned from driving for two yearsMark Taylor, 38, was sentenced to 12 months in prison, and has been banned from driving for two years (Image: Cheshire Police)

Taylor was high on cocaine at the time, and stole his friend's VW Beetle when they went bowling in Warrington.

He stole the car at around 5.30pm, and later that day the Beetle was seen on Northway – a police officer activated his blue lights and siren, and the Beetle continued.

A car chase ensued, with the Beetle clocking speeds of up to 60mph in a 20mph zone.

On Long Lane, travelling at 52mph, one of the tyres on the Beetle ‘disintegrated’ and the car was left to drive on its alloy, with sparks flying.

At a roundabout near Orford Green Road, the Beetle was driven the wrong way around a roundabout.

Taylor drove the car onto a grass verge, and lost control as the car crashed through a wooden barrier.

There was smoke and a flash of flame, before Taylor clambered out of the driver’s side window.

He was tackled and arrested by officers.

The Beetle was on fire by this point, and another officer was called for assistance – the fire eventually spread to nearby trees.

Speaking at Taylor's sentencing hearing, the prosecution said that he took the ‘deliberate decision to ignore the rules of the road’ and that he used ‘highly dangerous manoeuvres.’

Defending Taylor was Zahra Baqri, who told Judge Jack McGarva that Taylor should be given full credit for pleading guilty at the earliest opportunity.

She added that Taylor explained he had ‘taken cocaine and felt the urgent need to get away.’

The defendant was recently made homeless and had struggled with his parents’ recent diagnosis of cancer.

Taylor was also wanted for failing to attend probation meetings – something the defence explained was due to Taylor getting a new probation officer, which led Taylor to believe he did not need to attend the meetings, the court heard.

The defendant knew he was a wanted man, and he ‘panicked.’

Taylor was banned from driving for two years, and imprisoned for 12 months.