A TEENAGE driver who threw a car jack out of his window at another motorist in a road rage incident is due to be sentenced.

Toby Lee O’Neil followed another motorist out of Dalton and onto the A590 angered by an incident in the town.

He then overtook the other driver and launched the car jack from his window.

It missed the driver and any other vehicles but could have caused serious injury, magistrates were told.

The 19-year-old, of Low White Close in Barrow, pleaded guilty to causing danger to road users and driving with no insurance when he appeared at South Cumbria Magistrates’ Court in February.

He is due to be sentenced at Preston Crown Court on Monday.

Magistrates heard the offence carried a maximum sentence of seven years.

Prosecutor George Shelley said at the time that the defendant threw the item after a disagreement between the drivers over a vehicle manoeuvre in Dalton.

At the earlier hearing chair of the bench Stephen Sim said: “We have considered this quite seriously and we have taken this as a road rage incident.

“You launched a missile so I feel our sentencing powers are insufficient.”