A MOTORIST high on cocaine, who tore up the A3 in the wrong direction at speeds reaching 100 mph and ploughed into an oncoming car near Petersfield, is now facing a jail sentence.

A police witness told Portsmouth Crown Court on Monday that the Òhorror driveÓ, which lasted for more than an hour, was the worst case of protracted dangerous driving that Hampshire had ever seen.

A total of 260 witnesses came forward to describe the driving, which ended outside the Queen Elizabeth Country Park when the Range Rover crashed into a Renault Megane heading south. The Megane driver received life-threatening head, chest and leg injuries.

Mustafa Cafer, a 40-year-old computer consultant of Penderry Rise, Catford, south-east London, pleaded guilty on October 20 to charges of driving under the influence of drugs, dangerous driving, and of causing grievous bodily harm to Craig Lunn.

He denied a further charge of grievous bodily harm to Hannah Lunn, the 12-year- old sister of the seriously-injured driver, and this has been allowed to lie on file, according to police.

Cafer appeared at Portsmouth Crown Court on Monday, and Recorder Jonathan Acton Davis QC warned him that he was facing a custodial sentence.

Craig Lunn, 24, from Emsworth, was in a coma for six weeks after the collision, in which both his legs were broken and his sister broke both of her collar bones.

Mr Craig had to be cut free from the wreckage of his car, close to the entrance of the Queen Elizabeth Country Park by firemen, and was rushed to the Queen Alexandra Hospital in Cosham. He was later transferred to the neurological unit at Southampton Hospital.

Pc Bob Morrow of Hampshire Police said: ÒThis is the worst case of protracted dangerous driving that Hampshire has ever experienced.Ó

He said that 260 witnesses came forward to describe CaferÕs driving on FatherÕs Day, June 15, which involved him swerving across lanes, including the hard shoulder.

Police initially received reports at 1 pm of CaferÕs Range Rover overtaking and driving on the wrong sides of roads, jumping traffic lights and colliding with a vehicle in Portsmouth.

During the next hour, police received many calls reporting sightings of the Range Rover driving the wrong way on the A3M.

One motorist heading north even gave police a running commentary as Cafer drove the wrong way on the southbound carriageway near the country park, 15 miles from where he had set off.

It was here that he came head to head with two vehicles travelling towards him on the dual carriageway.

At the last moment Cafer, driving at about 70 mph, swerved from the fast lane to the slow lane and collided head-on with Mr LunnÕs Megane.

Mr Lunn was knocked unconscious and was trapped for more than an hour in the vehicle, which burst into flames.

Motorists stopped, the court heard, and gave first aid to Hannah, as well as helping to put out the burning vehicle.

Meanwhile Cafer ran onto the other carriageway, despite suffering a compound fracture to his ankle, and was rugby-tackled to the ground by a member of the public.

Pc Morrow said Cafer was so high on cocaine that he did not feel the pain of his broken ankle until one-and-a-half hours after the accident. The court heard he later admitted in an interview that he had taken substantial amounts of the drug during the preceding couple of days.

Pc Morrow said: ÒA normal person would have been screaming in pain, but because of the drugs Cafer could not feel a thing.Ó

He added that Cafer told the police the whole weekend was a blur to him because of the amount of cocaine he had taken.

The officer said Cafer was suffering from a drug-induced paranoia which led him to believe he was being chased, but added there was no evidence to support this.

The case was adjourned to November 21 for sentencing and Cafer was remanded in custody.