A teenager has been banned from driving after drugs were found in a car following a high-speed police chase.
Police were called to reports of a stolen vehicle in the Bognor area on November 17.
Officers chased the car along the A259 before it crashed into another vehicle on Chichester Road.
Drugs were found in the stolen vehicle which were then seized.
A 17-year-old from Bersted was arrested and later charged with dangerous driving; driving whilst unqualified and possession with intent to supply a class A drug.
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He pleaded guilty to all three offences when he appeared before Worthing Youth Court on November 23 and was handed a two-year detention order, and was disqualified from driving for two years.
He was also ordered to pay a £41 victim surcharge and will have to take an extended driving test.
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