WATCH: Sussex man sentenced after drink driving at over 100mph on hard shoulder

A man from Sussex has been sentenced for dangerous driving and child neglect after going over 100mph on a motorway. Photo: Still from Thames Valley Police footage

Miley Connors, 37, of Scant Road East, Hambrook, was sentenced to two years in prison, suspended for two years, after driving dangerously on the M40, police confirmed.

“At around 4.10pm on December 29, 2021, police received numerous calls from members of the public about a silver SUV going down the hard shoulder of the southbound carriageway of the M40 at over 100mph and swerving in between traffic, initially in Warwickshire before crossing into Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire,” a spokesperson for Thames Valley Police said.

“The car then hit the central reservation on the Shabbington bend between junctions nine and 8A, causing it to spin and lose a tyre.

“Fortunately, the car did not hit any other vehicles but the driver, Connors, continued driving to the overbridge near Worminghall, where he got out and started urinating.

“A child then got out of the car and ran away up by the embankment.

“Officers searched for Connors and the child, with support from the National Police Air Service, and they soon found them nearby. Officers arrested Connors and safeguarded the child.

“Connors was charged the following day.”

The attached video, released by Thames Valley Police, also describes how Connors was drunk during the incident and unable to walk.

Connors appeared at Oxford Crown Court on Friday (April 12), where he was disqualified from driving for two years and told he will need to pass an extended retest to get his licence back, according to police.

The judge also ordered him to complete 250 hours of unpaid work, 120 days of alcohol monitoring, and an accredited thinking skills programme within 20 days, as well as paying £3,000 in a fine and costs, police added. A jury unanimously found Connors guilty of one count each of dangerous driving and child neglect at the same court on February 16.

Investigating officer PC Amy Boughton, of the Joint Operations Roads Policing Unit, said: “This was one of the worse pieces of driving I have ever seen. Not only is it shocking to watch, it’s gut-wrenching to know there was a young child in that vehicle, scared and crying.

“The child was found wet, muddy and cold, and stood over Miley Connors, who was throwing up and incapable of looking after them.

“I can only hope that Connors take this second chance and makes recompense for the lives he could have so easily taken because of his reckless actions.”