Mum leads police on 90mph chase in BMW with her two children unsecured in the back

A mum drove 'appallingly' as she led police on a 90mph chase in her BMW with her two young children in the back, a court heard.

Tegan Bulley overtook an unmarked police car before racing off, bombing through red lights and accelerating up the wrong side of the road as officers gave chase, Wales Online reports.

She hit 70mph over speed bumps in residential streets and nearly lost control of the car. Bulley's two children were in the back of the car at the time and neither of them were secured in their child seats, a court was told.

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Police had to slow down and lost her. When the 29-year-old was eventually tracked down, she gave a false name to officers and claimed her white BMW 3 series had been stolen, before later pleading guilty to one charge of dangerous driving.

Bulley wept as she avoided an immediate prison sentence at Southampton Crown Court. Judge Brian Forster QC handed her an eight month sentence but suspended it for 15 months, before disqualifying her from driving for a year.

Siobhan Linsley, prosecuting, told the court police in an unmarked car first spotted Bulley speeding at about 7pm on a Friday evening in January last year, when she overtook them on the A336 on the outskirts of Southampton.

She said: "At the time the police car itself was going 40mph on a 40mph road - the maximum speed - when they were overtaken by a white BMW. The police accelerated to keep up with her and the vehicle was doing 50mph at that point."

After momentarily slowing down for a speed camera, Bulley 'again accelerated' and turned off the main road and into the town of Totton, heading towards the town centre at 40mph on