A man who drove 20 miles the wrong way along the M4 has served a jail sentence.
Intoxicated Alexis Moore, who was previously told by his doctor he should not be driving at all, failed to stop for police – travelling at speeds of up to 106mph.
The 62-year-old eventually pulled his Mercedes A200 AMG over in the area of Leigh Delamere services, near Chippenham, at around 3am on 9 January this year.
This is Moore’s second driving offence after he was convicted of being in charge of a vehicle while being unfit, Swindon Crown Court heard on July 25.
Moore, of Didcot, Oxfordshire, was given a 16-week suspended sentence for the offence of dangerous driving committed on January 9 this year.
Recorder David Chidgey told the defendant his driving “was in my opinion significantly impaired because of a medical condition”.
“This would be very frightening for anyone on the correct side of the motorway,” he added.
He told Moore that he was fortunate that there was very little traffic on the motorway at the time.
The sirens and lights of the police would have helped to warn other drivers of the potential hazard on the road which was caused by Moore’s decisions.
The court had earlier been told that Moore suffers from a “very troubled medical condition”. He suffers from alcohol-related dementia and had been sectioned in March, two months after the incident, and was later released in May.
Since the incident, he has sold the car he was driving at the time of the incident and plans to never drive again.
In addition to the 16-week prison sentence, which will be suspended for 18 months, Moore was also disqualified from driving for four years.
