Jail was the only sentence for a "selfish" driver who fled from police and crashed, injuring his 5-year-old son and the driver of another vehicle.
Tahi Sean Soutar-Whatarau's behaviour was described as "disgraceful" by Judge Deidre Orchard as she sentenced him to 20 months and two weeks in jail for a raft of driving charges.
The 25-year-old earlier pleaded guilty to driving while disqualified, driving in a dangerous manner, failing to stop, resisting arrest, refusing to give a blood sample, failing to give his name and address and two charges of dangerous driving causing injury.
He appeared for sentencing in the Whangarei District Court last week.Soutar-Whatarau committed the offences as a disqualified driver, in breach of a protection order and while subject to a sentence of supervision.
The court summary of facts said he was driving along High St, Raumanga, about 4.40pm on December 15 last year with his estranged partner and two children in the car.