A banned driver swapped seats with his friend after crashing into a car during a police chase in Leeds.
Aquib Hussain was subject to a suspended sentence when he led police on a chase in his friend's Toyota and crashed into an Audi.
The 21-year-old university student was jailed for a year after admitting the offences.
Prosecutor Robert Galley said police in a marked vehicle followed the Toyota along Chapeltown Road at 7.40pm on January 22 this year.
Leeds Crown Court was told the car went through traffic lights before turning left into side road and colliding with a bollard.
Hussain then lost control of the vehicle and collided head-on with an Audi, causing significant damage to both vehicles.
Mr Galley said officers caught up with the car and Hussain's friend told them that he had been the driver but it was "clear they had made a swap".
Hussain, of Easterly Crescent, Gipton, made no comment in his police interview.
Hussain pleaded guilty at the earliest opportunity to driving while disqualified, driving without insurance, dangerous driving, failing to stop and breaching a suspended sentence.
He had been given an eight-month prison sentence, suspended for 18 months, and disqualified from driving for two years in May last year after leading police on a high-speed chase in Leeds.
Jeremy Hill-Baker, mitigating, said his client had been "speeding at a little over the limit" when he saw police during the first incident, panicked and was pursued for a short distance.
Speaking about the second incident, Mr Hill-Baker said Hussain's friend had asked him to drive his car and he had agreed, adding: "What went through his mind we will never know."
Mr Hill-Baker urged the judge to consider suspending an immediate prison sentence, adding: "He is terrified of the prospect of custody.
"He knows it will effectively shatter him. He will lose his job and his university place.
"It should have been at the forefront of his mind when he got into the driver's seat."
Sentencing, Judge Simon Phillips QC said described Hussain's actions as "selfish, dangerous and stupid", adding: "It was your decision to get behind the wheel of the Toyota and your decision to put other members of the public at risk."
Hussain was disqualified from driving for three years.
