Footage has been released of a driver ramming a police motorcyclist with a stolen car in Southampton.
It comes as Marvin Geddes, 33, was jailed on Friday for 48 months at Southampton Crown Court after previously pleading guilty to attempting to cause actual bodily harm, dangerous driving and driving without a licence and driving without insurance.
Officers in Hampshire were trying to stop the 33-year-old after they spotted his Honda Civic with suspected cloned plates on Wimpson Lane, Southampton, at around 9.20pm on 2 July 2024.
A short pursuit followed where Geddes drove the vehicle in an extremely dangerous manner, including going the wrong way around a roundabout, driving on the wrong side of the road, and driving through a red light, the court was told.
Police dashcam footage, released by the Hampshire Constabulary, showed that Geddes crashed into motorcyclist PC Derek Hearn at speed. The court heard Geddes drove off before being involved in a collision with a Peugeot 108 shortly after.
Geddes, from Southampton, then abandoned his Honda – which was later confirmed to have been stolen from an address in the city in March 2023 – and fled the scene on foot.
PC Hearn said: “I feel lucky that I haven’t lost a limb or even my life from this incident.
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“As a police officer I pride myself on doing my job to the best of my ability to safeguard the public. I do not accept that my life should be put in danger because of that.”
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Superintendent Mark Lewis said: “I was absolutely appalled when I saw the footage of this incident. No police officer should ever have to deal with such extreme violence towards them.
“The fact PC Hearn and the driver of the Peugeot were not seriously injured is extremely lucky, considering the severe level of complete disregard Geddes showed to them.”
