A chartered surveyor was tasered by police after he drove dangerously through the streets of Hucknall.

Stephen Burrows was down to three tyres when officers in their cars closed in as he desperately tried to get away.

Nottingham Crown Court heard Burrows, who is due to be sentenced for the dangerous driving, accelerated to 50mph when his nearside tyre deflated on the Volkswagen Golf he was driving.

His speed reached 70mph moments before he lost control and swerved into the road, colliding with a stationary police car ahead of him.

Prosecutor Steven Taylor said Burrows continued to drive as police cars tried to block him in, and he tried to break out of the box shape the cars had created.

"He tried to get away," Mr Taylor told the court on Friday (June 30). "The engine was revving and the wheels spinning".

Eventually he was boxed in by a wall and railing.

The 36-year-old, of Linby Road, Hucknall, was kicking his driver's door in an attempt to open it.

And a woman passenger in the car was "shouting and screaming incoherently", said Mr Taylor.

The taser was then used before he was arrested.

A mother-of-four, who witnessed the chase with her children at the roadside, said in a statement read in court: "I couldn't believe how fast the car was going in that location and thought 'what if the car crashed into my car and killed or injured my children'."

Burrows pleaded guilty to driving dangerously.

An hour beforehand police attended a domestic incident in Chatsworth Drive in Hucknall.

Burrows had run off but was later seen in the Golf when police ordered him to stop.

He turned on the engine with one of the officers holding the driver's door. The car moved forward, pulling the officer along, and missing his foot by a couple of centimetres.

At court, he pleaded guilty to dangerous driving in Chatsworth Drive; dangerous driving on various roads; drink-driving; resisting arrest, all on April 23.

He also admitted failing to cooperate with a roadside breath test on December 26 last year; criminal damage to roof tiles and an aerial on March 11, and assault by beating on March 15.

Mitigating, barrister Adrian Langdale said Burrows is a chartered surveyor who has worked "extremely hard throughout his life".

But he explained to Recorder Jason MacAdam that the root of his client's difficulties is alcohol.

After Burrows's mother fell ill recently, his response was to turn to the bottle, the court heard.

The judge adjourned for two weeks for Burrows to be assessed by the probation service after hearing Mr Langdale's mitigation.

He remanded him in custody until July 14.