This is the moment a police driver brought a 100mph car chase to an end using his own patrol vehicle.

Shocking footage from a dashboard camera shows a 17-year-old boy, with no licence or insurance, tearing through the streets of Norris Green and Everton after the officer tried to stop his car.

The teenager hits speeds of 100mph on Queens Drive after twisting and turning through busy, narrow residential streets.

The dangerous driving continues even after the Volvo S60 car, which was on cloned number plates, punctures all four tyres while hitting a concrete central reservation at speed.

The police camera, which only measures speeds up to 99mph, shows the vehicle jumping three sets of red traffic lights at speeds of up to 75mph.

But the Volvo, with four youths inside, is skillfully brought to a stop on Barlows Lane, when the officer takes the opportunity to pull alongside it and force it into a wall.

The driver was arrested at the scene and found to be in possession of a small bag of cannabis while the other occupants fled the scene.

The teenager, who cannot be identified due to his age, was in the process of being sentenced at Liverpool Youth Court yesterday when he declared: "I can't be a**** with this" and stormed out.

'He knows this was only a split second away from being a tragic incident'

He had pleaded guilty to dangerous driving, possession of cannabis and driving with no licence or insurance.

Alison Clarkson, prosecuting, had told the court chase began when the boy accelerated away from a police patrol car in Sedgemoor Road, Norris Green, on December 29 last year.

She said: "The vehicle concerned was a Volvo S60. It currently has no registered keeper and in fact is believed by police officers to be a pool vehicle shared between several people.

"Just after midday an officer on patrol saw the vehicle, which was on false plates, and realised there was something wrong. He saw four young males in the vehicle and decided he was going to stop it."

Clare Fletcher, defending, told the court her client had been "shaking" and "very nervous" before coming into court.

She said: "What happened when the officer put his blue lights on was completely impulsive behaviour, he didn't know what to do. There were others in the car with him; who knows what was going on in the car that day."

The court heard the defendant, from Norris Green, had no previous convictions and Ms Fletcher suggested the Youth Offending Service could help address his thinking skills and mental health issues.

Ms Fletcher added: "He knows this was only a split second away from being a tragic incident, he knows just how close he came to that."

But the hearing ended suddenly when the presiding magistrate told the teenager to stop leaning on his hand, asking: "Is your head falling off?"

The defendant snapped and stormed out despite his dad, and Ms Fletcher, calling him back. It later emerged he had fled the court building, in Derby Square, and turned his mobile phone off.

The magistrates issued a warrant for his arrest.