A boozed-up teenager injured a child while driving in the wrong direction through Wishaw streets.
Eighteen-year-old Derrie Jackson appeared at Hamilton Sheriff Court this week having admitted five charges including dangerous driving, drink-driving and being in possession of a knife.
On December 4 last year, Jackson reversed a car on Russell Street and collided with a vehicle.
He then drove in the wrong direction before swerving onto the pavement forcing a pedestrian to take evasive action to avoid a collision.
The teen then drove up East Thornlie Street the wrong way and collided with the wall of a house before heading down Caledonian Road on the wrong side of the road, narrowly avoiding a collision with another car.
Jackson then lost control of the car causing it to cross onto the opposing carriageway, collide with an electrical box, hit a further two vehicles, one of which included the child who was injured, and hit a set of temporary traffic lights.
Attending officers then found a Stanley knife and breathalysed the accused. Jackson was found to be more than two and half times the legal drink-drive limit.
He also admitted driving without a licence and without insurance.
However, the teenager was cleared of driving a car without the consent of the owner, failing to stop at the scene of an accident, behaving in a threatening manner by shouting and swearing and resisting arrest by struggling violently with police.
Jackson, formerly of Russell Street but now of Old Edinburgh Road, Uddingston, will find out his fate on June 18 after the sheriff ordered reports.
