A driver sentenced to six weeks in jail has avoided any more time behind bars.
Joshua Tyler Campbell, 20, was released following sentencing by Judge Ian Mill in the Masterton District Court on Monday as Campbell had already spent four weeks on remand in custody.
Campbell had pleaded guilty to failing to stop for police, driving with sustained loss of traction and two counts of dangerous driving regarding two traffic incidents on March 1 and 29.
The court had heard Campbell was doing "donuts" in a car as he drove at speed in Dixon St and Queen St on March 1, "sliding sideways" in a "cloud of smoke" and stopping just short of a power substation box in South Rd. Police said he had been driving at speeds of 100km/h on the wrong side of the road.
Then on March 29 Campbell was seen by police riding a motorcycle in Harley St and when they had tried to stop him he drove off at speed "accelerating to 140km/h in a 50km area" before driving down a dead-end street where police caught up with and arrested him.