A teenage tractor driver who destroyed a car in a crash outside a busy airbase has been sentenced. 

Video footage captured the moment Tyler Sowerby’s huge Case IH vehicle veered across the two-lane road outside RAF Mildenhall before crashing into an oncoming Honda. 

Dramatic pictures from the scene revealed the aftermath of the crash, which nobody was seriously injured in. 

Emergency services were called at 12.24pm on Saturday, September 24, to reports of a collision between a car and a tractor on the A1101 in Beck Row.

Sowerby, of Tallows Whins, Lazonby, near Penrith, was sentenced at Carlisle Magistrates' Court on Monday. 

Prosecutor Graeme Tindall told the court: “The defendant was driving in the opposite direction, in a tractor which was towing a trailer which was loaded with grain.

"He was swerving along the road."

The 19-year-old admitted careless driving and driving while unfit through drugs. 

Sowerby had previously admitted a separate drug-driving offence.

This was committed at Lazonby on February 10 as he was stopped by police while driving a Vauxhall Corsa.

A blood test showed he was over the legal driving limit for cocaine.

The court heard he had no previous convictions to his name.

Defence solicitor Duncan Campbell said Sowerby had "lost control" of the tractor.

“Thank goodness nobody was injured. I think this young man was taken to hospital, that was precautionary. The Honda driver was uninjured. It was not as serious as it could have been,” said Mr Campbell.

Sowerby was sentenced by magistrates in relation to both incidents.

An eight-week prison sentence was suspended for 12 months.

Sowerby must also complete a rehabilitation requirement by working with the probation service for up to 10 days, do 60 hours of unpaid work and has been handed a three-year driving ban.