Female driver with baby on board ploughs into parked cars in Portsmouth police chase

Officers were spotted in pursuit of a vehicle in Locarno Road, Copnor, where up to four vehicles were damaged by the danger-driver just before midday. A female was seen getting out of the car holding a baby before she was stopped in nearby Allcot Road by officers and breathalysed, it was reported.

No one was reportedly hurt but the menace left a trail of destruction in the area with debris seen strewn across the road. “The car was chased into Locarno Road where it crashed before the woman got out of the car holding a baby. She walked into Allcot Road where the police arrested her,” an eyewitness said. 

A Hampshire police spokesperson said: "We were called at 11.22am today (19 January) to a report of a single road traffic collision on Copnor Road. The vehicle involved in the collision was then driven along Locarno Road and Allcot Road. It collided with a number of parked vehicles. No injuries were reported.

"A 35-year-old woman from Portsmouth was arrested on suspicion of driving a motor vehicle when alcohol level above limit and driving a motor vehicle with a proportion of a specified controlled drug above the specified limit.

"She was also arrested on suspicion of driving while unfit through drink, driving a vehicle while unfit through drugs and being drunk in charge of a child under the age of seven years. The woman remains in custody and our enquiries are ongoing."