A danger driver sent cops zig-zagging across Hamilton at high speed and forced pedestrians to dive for cover, a court heard yesterday.

Swayne Eulett Gibbons ignored Police sirens, mounted the sidewalk, drove on the wrong side of the road and ignored stop signs as he led officers on a lengthy chase through the city.

The early-hours chase started when patrol officers spotted the 38-year-old travelling at high speed on Parsons Road, Pembroke.

They pursued him with sirens blaring and Senior Crown counsel Paula Tyndale said that Gibbons looked back but failed to stop.

The defendant mounted a pavement near Court Street before heading down Dundonald Street and into the a parking lot. He failed to halt at a stop sign at Union Street and later entered Elliott Street on the wrong side of the road at high speed.

The court heard the chase continued back to where it started on Parsons Road, where he ignored another stop sign, and the defendant later mounted the sidewalk near Ewing Street.

He led Police back through the same parking lot he took them through moments earlier ? then raced through another stop sign.

Gibbons, of Harlem Heights Road, Hamilton Parish, nearly hit a wall on King Street before he jumped from his black Suzuki bike on Curving Avenue, causing it to collide with a rocky grass verge. He was finally arrested outside a cake shop, the court heard, and refused to sign tickets when asked by Police.

Ms Tyndale said that Gibbons caused numerous pedestrians to take evasive action during the chase.

Gibbons, who appeared before magistrates yesterday, was fined $100 for driving without a licence, $600 for failing to stop for Police, $1,000 for dangerous driving and was banned from the road for one year.