'Miracle' no one killed as driver rammed cars and went wrong way on M56

A JUDGE said it was a 'miracle' that no one was killed after a drink-driver went on a 20-mile motorway rampage.

- ANDREW BARDSLEY

James Loveridge, 28, rammed into other cars and drove the wrong way down the M56 before eventually crashing into a fence in Wythenshawe.

His shocking driving terrorised other motorists, with one, a veteran who had served in Afghanistan, describing it as 'one of the scariest incidents' he had ever experienced. Loveridge, who was found to be twoand-a-half times over the drink drive limit, was jailed for just under two years.

"This incident of dangerous driving is one of the worst that I have seen over many years as a crown court judge," Judge Suzanne Goddard KC told him. "One is more used to seeing such driving on TV dramas. It's a miracle nobody was hurt or killed that day as a result of your driving." Manchester Crown Court heard that Loveridge's father had previously died in a car crash more than a decade earlier.