A teenager has been banned from the roads after causing the van he was driving to somersault over a roundabout.
The incident, which was caught on the helmet camera of a following motorcyclist, took place on the A11 at Attleborough on 1st September 2018.
The footage showed the silver Citroen Berlingo van maintaining its speed, aggressively undertaking and changing lanes in the final seconds before it entered the roundabout.
The van, being driven by Ryan Lamb, mounted the kerb with such force that it was flung into the air and travelled straight across the roundabout.
Astonishingly Lamb and his two passengers walked away with only minor cuts and bruises.
Unemployed Lamb, of Willow Park, Beck Row, Suffolk denied driving dangerously at the time of the collision.
He appeared for trial at Norwich Magistrates' Court earlier today.
Mark Jackson, prosecuting, told the court that Lamb and his two friends were travelling along the A11 Attleborough bypass on their way to the Sundown festival in Norwich.
He described how witnesses had seen the van undertaking and having to suddenly change lanes in order to avoid a collision with the vehicle in front.
"As a result of that misjudgement the vehicle vaults up and turns upside down", Mr Jackson said.
"It would be obvious to a competent and careful driver that driving in the way he did was dangerous", he concluded.
Simon Nicholls, defending, said one of the witnesses had twice described how the defendant had "misjudged" the roundabout.
But Mr Nicholls said she had said nothing about speed or that Lamb had done anything dangerous.
Summing up, he said: "It is not dangerous driving."
The bench disagreed.
Chairman of the bench, Jim Agnew, said: "Your driving fell far below the expected standard of competent and careful driving."
Lamb was sentenced to 80 hours of unpaid work.
He was also disqualified from driving for 12 months, ordered to take an extended retest, pay £310 towards prosecution costs and £85 victim surcharge.
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