SHOCKING dashcam footage has captured the moment a Mercedes driver sent a Mini into a spin after undertaking it on the M4 at 125mph.

Peter Goodfellow zig-zagged through rush hour traffic at high speed before clipping the rear wing of the car on his way to work.

Now he has been jailed for 11 months.

Despite the dash-cam footage showing the Mercedes, which had two bald tyres, regularly undertaking at high speed, he told a probation officer he ran out of road.

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Passing sentence on the former Haydon Wick Parish Council candidate, Judge Jason Taylor QC accused him of minimising and deflecting. “You are not contrite at all, you are still prepared to point the blame at others,” he said.

Colin Meeke, prosecuting, told Swindon Crown Court the crash happened on the M4 westbound near Chippenham at about 8am on July 19 last year.

Before it happened other road users saw his white Mercedes coupe pass cars on both sides, estimating his speed between 75mph and 125mph. One piece of footage

showed him ducking back into the middle lane to pass two cars blocking his path in the fast lane. Thinking the front one was pulling back in he headed for the hard shoulder, but as he went on the inside of the Mini his car clipped its nearside rear wing sending it spinning more than 360 degrees towards the central reservation.

As a result of the smash the woman driver, who was on her way to work, sustained neck injuries and bruising. She needed physiotherapy for pain in her neck and shoulders and suffered severe anxiety and panic attacks.

Goodfellow, 36, of Redhouse Gardens, initially denied dangerous driving but changed plea on the day of trial.

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Probation officer Jackie Reynolds said he admitted his driving was careless or reckless, bet not dangerous and claimed the crash was not completely his fault. He said: ‘I use all three lanes to progress to work. If I can’t undertake, and I do undertake, then I have to question why other road users are not driving where they should’.

Asked whether she thought he was remorseful, she said: “I did not form that view.”

Nicola Peach, defending, said he always accepted he drove carelessly and had pleaded not guilty on legal advice. She said he was going to work early as he had a new job as an IT manager and wanted to make a good impression. “He was frustrated at the lack of progress being made in the traffic

Judge Taylor told him: “This accident in essence could have easily been fatal. It was all caused by your impatience and dangerous driving on that day. It seems even now in the dock today you are minimising and deflecting. This type of driving frustrates and annoys other drivers causing them not to drive as well as they could causing others to fear others may cut in. The fact of the matter is, having seen the footage, this is so serious that only immediate custody can be justified and you have not helped yourself with your attitude with probation.”

He also banned him from the road for two years and five-and-a-half-months.