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This dramatic video footage of a high speed police chase shows an officer trapped by the door of a runaway car.

Cops were in pursuit of a black BMW being driven by 22-year-old Ashley Carl Bennett, who used the oncoming lane to race around traffic before narrowly avoiding a smash and spinning around.

As the car comes to a stop, the pursuing police officer approaches and points a taser gun at the two occupants.

But as he nears the driver's door, the car starts moving backwards as the two men jump out, with the driver's door trapping the officer as the BMW rolls back.

The whole incident near Wrexham town centre on May 5 was caught on the dash cam of the police car and was played at Mold Crown Court yesterday.

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Prosecutor Philip Clemo said Bennett, of Ruabon Road, Wrexham, got away but handed himself in to police three days later.

He was jailed for 64 weeks after he admitted dangerous driving, disqualified driving, assaulting a police officer as an emergency worker, failing to stop and no insurance. He was ordered to pay £500 compensation to the officer and banned from driving for four years and 32 weeks.

Judge Timothy Petts said his manner of driving “put many people at risk”.

“It is accepted that you did not deliberately reverse at the officer,” he said.

Bennett was still young and had admitted what he had done, but he had a history of driving offences.

(Image: Daily Post Wales)

He described himself as “an idiot” who should just have stopped the car.

The officer was taken to hospital for a check-up and suffered shock.

A prosecution application to forfeit the car was refused by the judge who said it would not be proportionate to take away a car said to be valued at £2,500. But he said the defendant could sell it to pay the officer compensation.