A DRINK driver has been banned from the road for five years for causing a crash.

Kerim Alan, aged 31, of Livsey Street, Whitefield, was driving a blue Fiat Punto in Chichester Street, Rochdale, on New Year's Day when police spotted he was driving erratically.

Alan refused to stop for police, and later crashed into another car.

At the side of the road, he resisted arrest.

Officers took him to Ashton-under-Lyne Police Station and found a quantity of cocaine on him.

Alan refused a breath test and at the time of the incident, he was disqualified from driving.

Alan was sentenced by Bury magistrates last week, after previously he admitted driving without due care and attention, driving while disqualified, driving without insurance, causing a crash, resisting arrest, drugs possession and failing to give a breath test.

Alan was given a four-month prison sentence suspended for a year.

He must also carry out 120 hours of unpaid work and pay £350 court costs and £300 compensation for the damaged car.