A drink driver who smashed into a family car then hurled ‘racist’ abuse at them had been on an all-night bender, a court heard.

Mazafar Majid, 46, got behind the wheel of his wife’s Hyundai when he’d returned from the dusk-to-dawn drinking session on August 1. He’d argued with his wife and repeatedly rammed the car into a neighbour’s vehicle – apparently at random – before speeding off.

Oxford Crown Court heard that Majid came round the roundabout from Warneford Lane, Oxford, driving onto Divinity Road on the wrong-side of the two-way street.

Footage taken on a dash cam in an oncoming car, which contained a couple and their five-year-old child, showed the Hyundai ploughing into their bonnet.

Despite being in the wrong, Majid began arguing with the innocent driver. He tried to drive off but a puncture meant he only made it a short way down the road. He got out his car and began making comments that prosecutor Warwick Tatford said were ‘alleged to be racist in some way’.

“He was clearly behaving in a thoroughly bad tempered and aggressive way,” the prosecutor added.

The police breathalysed him and found he had 61mcgs of alcohol in 100ml of breath, almost twice the legal limit of 35mcgs.

Sending Majid to prison for 15 months, Judge Michael Gledhill QC said of the car the defendant struck: “It not only had a driver, but he had his wife and a child in that car and although the damage to the vehicle wasn’t as great as it might have been, those people could have been killed.

“And what did you do? Well, you pulled out from the collision on to the correct side of the road and hurled abuse at the driver. Nobody can hear what you were saying [on the footage]; it’s quite obvious from your movements that you were hurling abuse at hm.

“You drove off, you didn’t get very far because of the puncture. You failed to stop after an accident [and] you were well over the legal limit for drink.

“Then you made it even worse by using abusive and threatening language to people around your vehicle.

“You should be thoroughly and utterly ashamed of yourself, which you say you are and I accept you are.”

Majid, of Westbourne Road, Middlesbrough, pleaded guilty at an earlier hearing to dangerous driving, drink driving, failing to stop at the scene of an accident and threatening behaviour.

He had a long record, including for drink driving, but had been out of trouble since 2012. His criminal past included a 21 month jail sentence in 2005 for false imprisonment and causing actual bodily harm and nine months’ imprisonment the following year for conspiracy to defraud.

Mitigating, Bethan Rogers said her client felt ‘extraordinarily remorseful’ about the incident. He had increasingly struggled with alcohol addiction over the lockdown but had booked himself on to a rehabilitation programme. He was receiving treatment for angina.

Judge Gledhill jailed Majid for 15 months and banned him from driving for three years and 32 weeks. He must pass an extended retest if he wants to drive again.

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