Police officer sentenced for dangerous driving  

A police officer has been banned from driving for 12 months at Birmingham Crown Court after pleading guilty to dangerous driving at an earlier hearing. PC Ben Penfold admitted the charge after the car he was driving collided with a transit van. The response officer and a female colleague escaped with minor injuries as they responded to an emergency incident in Wolverhampton in June last year. The marked Vauxhall Insignia hit the van at the junction of Bilston Road and Steelhouse Lane a