Shocking dashcam footage of taxi driver hurtling over speed bumps at 80MPH

A DANGEROUS taxi driver hit speeds of up to 80mph when he raced through red lights on busy city streets.

Kieran McKechnie, 28, blamed a relationship-split on his erratic driving, that saw him ignore a giveway sign just yards from a mum and her children.

A judge today described dashcam footage of the two-mile chase around Liverpool as “astonishing, breathtaking and horrific” - after watching him drive over speed bumps at 45mph.

Jailing him for 14 months, Judge Norman Wright told him: “You put your own life at risk in the way you drove that vehicle, without regard to any other traffic on the road, be it oncoming or overtaking, bus or cyclist, through red lights as if they didn’t exist, and over speed bumps.

“Your own life was at risk, as were any other road users that you might have collided with.”

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McKechnie was banned from driving for 31 months after admitting dangerous driving.

He was also sentenced for a bail act offence after failing to turn up to court last week.

The 28-year-old's high-speed race came to a violent end when he crashed his Vauxhall Astra taxi into a stationary car.

He then ran away from the scene of the accident, the reports.

Chris Taylor, Crown Advocate with Mersey-Cheshire Crown Prosecution Service said: “The defendant drove at high speeds of up to 80 mph along busy streets with no thought for others.

"There was a high risk that he would collide with another vehicle.

“At one point there was a mother with children on the pavement. There was the potential for a real tragedy.”

McKechnie, who was employed as a driver for Delta taxis, was not on duty when he "lost control" after discovering his partner was seeing another man.

His lawyer described him as “a very remorseful man”.

Gerald Baxter, defending, added: "He is thoroughly ashamed of what he did.“He says he’s learned his lesson and in future will control himself if ever he is in a stressful situation like that.”

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