Jail for driver who reversed at speed towards garda

A man who was twice hospitalised following serious collisions has been jailed for four years by Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

Thomas Mc Guinness (aged 25) of Harelawn Drive, Clondalkin was thrown out the back window of the car in the first collision on May 25, 2004 but despite being hospitalised for several weeks was involved in a similar accident on January 9, 2005.