Driver jailed for hitting mother during police chase

A driver careered into a mother with a pushchair in a desperate attempt to escape from police, a court heard. Isaac Donovan, 29, was spotted without a seatbelt as he drove his blue Ford Focus along St John’s Road in Walthamstow, east London, at around 4pm on 17 April this year. Officers attempted to flag him down and Donovan briefly slowed down as if he was going to stop. But he hit the accelerator and sped off at double the…