Dashcam footage of A303 crash between 'idiot' drivers

Shaun Smith was driving his black Volkswagen Golf home to Worthy Down from Aldershot when Stuart Townsend came speeding towards him on the slip road at Junction 8 of the M3.

The road had just split, with Smith in the inside lane, overtaking a flatbed lorry - the vehicle with the dashcam.

As Towsend comes towards him in his blue Skoda Octavia, Smith applies the brakes, losing ten miles an hour of speed.

At a trial earlier this week, Smith claimed it was to tell him to back off, and denied that it was a brake test.

Townsend slams on the brakes, almost careering into the back of the car ahead, and moves to the outside lane, alongside Smith.

He speeds up to undertake the Golf, but Smith decides to speed up too.

They reach slower moving traffic further down the road, just as it bends to the right, when Townsend tries to cut back across.

The two cars collide, and Townsend's Skoda goes spinning onto the grass before flipping onto its roof.

Smith pulled onto the hard shoulder around a quarter of a mile up the road. There were no injuries in the crash.

Smith was found guilty of dangerous driving after a trial at Winchester Crown Court this week.

The 45-year-old, of Malpass Road, was banned from driving for a year and told to do 100 hours of unpaid work.

He must pay £2,800 in prosecution costs, and a victim surcharge.

Smith will also have to take an extended driving test before he is allowed to drive again.

In the trial, prosecutor Janice Brennan admitted that it was Townsend who had "started it" and was responsible for the "main blame", but said that both men had driven dangerously.

But Smith insisted his driving was not dangerous, instead admitting it was "reckless" and that he should have just left Townsend pass.