A jockey involved in a three-car crash whilst trying to overtake in fog, fled the scene and later jumped bail, a court heard.
Robert Gault (26) was arrested in Northern Ireland three years after the collision in Braunston, Rutland, which resulted in the two other drivers being hospitalised.
At Leicester Crown Court, Gault pleaded guilty to dangerously driving a car on a road called The Wisp, on September 29 in 2011.
He also admitted failing to attend court in December last year.
Gault, of Maybin Park, Ballymena Kells, Antrim, was jailed for six months and banned from driving for 12 months.
Judge Ebraham Mooncey said: "You were driving from Leicester towards Oakham in thick fog and pulled out because you were becoming impatient.
"Instead of pulling back and staying back you continued a manoeuvre which resulted in an accident and two other drivers were injured.
"Patience is required when driving in difficult conditions.
"Two people had to receive hospital treatment because of this."
"You failed to attend court and fled to Northern Ireland.
"I accept you're a hard-working man and have no previous convictions."
Ben Gow, prosecuting, said that a woman driver in front of the defendant had been driving slowly whilst following a tractor for some distance.
He said: "She noticed the car kept pulling out behind her.
"There was a patch of dense fog ahead when the defendant overtook her.
"She could see the headlights of an oncoming car approaching.
"She then heard an almighty bang as she was involved in the collision with both cars.
"The oncoming car was attempted to overtake the car ahead of him but was pulling back because he could not see.
"Gault's response wasn't to stay at the scene but to run off and was not caught despite police dogs trying to track him.
"When arrested some time later but denied being the driver.
"However, his DNA matched DNA found on the driver's airbag, which had activated."
The police executed a warrant in Northern Ireland at the end of October this year, and he was brought to Leicester Crown Court on September 2, and remanded into custody.
Louise McGhee, mitigating, said the car he crashed had belonged to his then girlfriend, with whom he was living in the UK, but they split up after the collision.
She said: "He struck the oncoming car, because it was straddling both lanes as he pulled over.
