A teenage danger driver roared along a busy residential road at more than three times the speed limit, reaching up to 100mph.

Nuno Tomas, 19, also undertook a car as he sped along Scotland Road in Carlisle, with police in pursuit.

A judge at the city’s crown court described his driving – behaviour he admitted was immature and dangerous – as some of some of the worst she had seen in a built-up area in a long time.

Tomas broke a string of rules as he drove along the road – one of the busiest routes in and out of the city – with four passengers in his Vauxhall Astra.

Tomas, whose mother took his car keys off him after his arrest, was sentenced having admitted dangerous driving.

Zoe Dawson, prosecuting, said a police officer first saw Tomas’s car at 4am on October 9.

He had travelled to Eden Bridge, undertaking a vehicle before heading along Scotland Road.

“The PC states that in pursuit of the vehicle he reached speeds of 90-100mph in order to catch up with it,” said Miss Dawson.

“At no point was the vehicle doing any less, in the officer’s opinion, than 70mph.”

Tomas eventually stopped close to the M6.

He had committed a speeding offence earlier that night in Scotland and passed his test just two months earlier.

Greg Hoare, defending, said Tomas had travelled to Carlisle to collect friends.

“There was a degree of egging on,” he conceded.

“He recognises that his behaviour on that evening was immature in the extreme as well as, potentially, catastrophically dangerous.”

Tomas was said to be an intelligent, hard-working young man. His mother had provided a reference to the court. “He has not driven since,” added Mr Hoare.

Tomas, of Whitehill Road, Carrutherstown, near Annan, was given an eight-month prison sentence, suspended for two years. He must complete a rehabilitation requirement, unpaid work and a night-time curfew.

In addition, he was banned from driving for a year and must take an extended re-test.

Sentencing, Judge Barbara Forrester said: “The driving that you were responsible for is some of the worst I have come across in a built-up area for a long time.

“Had there been an accident the chances are it would have been a fatal one.”

The judge added: “It would have been bad enough if you were doing 100mph on the M6. To do 100mph on the A7 in a residential area is inexplicable.”