A DRIVER who did dangerous donuts in a Swindon industrial estate has been banned from getting back behind the wheel.

Jack O'Shaughnessy, 20, of Lambrok Road, Trowbridge, was sentenced to eight weeks in jail, suspended for a year, and disqualified from driving for 12 months in a hearing at Swindon Magistrates’ Court on April 12.

He will also be required to complete an extended driving test, complete 100 hours of unpaid work and pay court costs of £85 and a victim surcharge of £154.

O’Shaughnessy was heard and then seen doing donuts in the Hawksworth Industrial Estate in Swindon at a car meet with more than 100 vehicles on November 13.

He was seen completing loops with around 40 people surrounding the vehicle on foot within a few metres of it.

O’Shaughnessy was subsequently arrested and charged with dangerous driving.

PC Luke Hobbs of the Roads Policing Unit said: “O’Shaughnessy was placing himself and the pedestrians surrounding the car at risk by driving in the manner which he was.

“By driving like that, O’Shaughnessy was not in control of his vehicle and if something went wrong then it could easily have resulted in a pedestrian being seriously injured."