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Walsall biker caught hiding in bushes after mowing down pensioner and riding away

Richard Allen - who filmed himself driving at up to 140mph - has now been jailed for seven-and-a-half years.

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Richard Allen hit a woman while riding a Honda bike, bottom right, and filmed himself driving a car at 140mph, top right

A banned driver who mowed down a pensioner and filmed himself speeding along a motorway at up to 140mph has been jailed.

Richard Allen was found by a police sniffer dog hiding in bushes around an hour after he hit the elderly woman at a pedestrian crossing in Birmingham Road, Sutton Coldfield, last year.

The 38-year-old from Walsall, who was banned from the roads in 2001 for dangerous driving, was said by witnesses to have been speeding at more than 50mph in a 30mph zone on his Honda CBR motorbike when the collision happened.

His victim was thrown into the air and suffered multiple fractures, including a broken hip.

WATCH: Allen films himself driving at 140mph

Allen glanced back at the woman lying injured in the street but sped away from the crash and dumped his bike at a mechanic’s garage near his home in Chantry Avenue, Blakenall.

However, a member of the public noted down the bike’s registration and soon after a police sniffer dog tracked him from his home to the dense undergrowth where he was found hiding.

Unanimously found guilty

The labourer, who was on his way back from Greggs to the Sutton building site he was working on at the time, denied responsibility and told police the woman had walked out in front of him.

However, collision investigators spoke to several witnesses who described seeing Allen accelerating into the woman without braking – and after a four-day trial he was found unanimously guilty of causing serious injury through dangerous driving.

Richard Allen's Honda CBR bike in a garage

A judge at Birmingham Crown Court last week jailed Allen for seven-and-a-half years - including four-and-a-half years for the collision, plus an additional year for each of the three other dangerous driving incidents shown on his phone.

West Midlands Police has now released one of the video clips, showing Allen hurtling along the fast lane of the M69 at 140mph in an Audi TT.

At one stage Allen took a drag on a cigarette which meant he had no hands on the wheel despite speeding at twice the motorway limit.

'A self-interested menace'

Detective Constable Karl Davies, from West Midlands Police’s Collision Investigation Unit, said: “Richard Allen was a disqualified driver who shouldn’t have even been on the road, let alone driving in such a dangerous manner.

"The judge described him as ‘a menace to decent law-abiding road users’ and he left his victim lying in the road having suffered very serious injuries and multiple fractures.

Allen filmed himself driving at up to 140mph on the M69

“He didn’t check on her or try to get her medical attention. Allen was only interested in himself, fleeing the scene and trying to cover his tracks.

“However, little more than an hour later our officers tracked him from the rear of his home into thick undergrowth where he was hiding.

“Speed ruins lives, but Allen is clearly a man who does not appreciate the huge responsibility for public safety that comes with driving on our roads.

“He is a menace at the wheel and I hope the long prison sentence handed to him acts as a deterrent to others who may believe they can speed with impunity.”