A drink-driver from Reading drove the wrong way down a motorway, racially abused and bit a fellow motorist who tried to take his keys from him, a court heard.
Saiful Miah, of Tavistock Road in Whitley , was twice the drink-driving limit when he careered out of a motorway services onto the wrong side of the carriageway in the early hours of November 12 last year.
The 27-year-old then did a U-turn on the motorway in front of terrified drivers, before veering back into the services near junction 12 of the M4 motorway in Reading.
Stunned recovery driver Mark Allen, who had seen the Ford Fiesta passing him as he pulled into the services, spotted the same vehicle at the petrol station and raced over.
Alan Blake, prosecuting at Reading Crown Court , said: “He accosted the driver and asked him why it was that he’d gone the wrong way down the motorway, whereupon he gained a clear impression that Mr Miah, the driver, had been drinking.
“Mr Miah went back towards his car as if to drive off and Mr Allen leaned in and took the keys, knowing he was in no fit state to drive.
“That caused Mr Miah to become angry and there was a brief struggle or altercation over the keys. During the course of that the defendant bit Mr Allen on his hand, causing a nasty looking injury.”
The recovery driver, together with the driver of the vehicle he had just collected, managed to wrestle the drink driver to the ground.
