DRIVER James Pugh-Jones, 24, who smashed his car into a pedestrian while chasing after another man, has been jailed for 20 weeks.
Last year he avoided prison for the dangerous driving offence and was given a six months sentence suspended for a year.
But on Tuesday Gloucester Crown Court heard that Pugh-Jones (pictured) has "willfully failed to comply" with the conditions of his suspended sentence, which included doing 150 hours of unpaid work.
Recorder James Watson QC told Pugh-Jones his progress on the order had come "to a grinding halt" at the end of last year.
The court now had no alternative but to implement the suspended sentence, he said. However, he reduced it from 26 weeks to 20 weeks.
Last year, the court heard, Pugh-Jones, of Railway Road, Cinderford, crashed into 35-year-old Arlo O'Donnell in Lydney. He was pursuing a man who had fled after getting into an argument with him.
Mr O'Donnell was walking along the pavement on his way to visit his mother, when he was hit by the car and thrown onto its bonnet. He then fell down an embankment and suffered injuries which put him off work for five weeks.
Pugh-Jones admitted dangerous driving but he denied that he had deliberately run down Mr O'Donnell in the mistaken belief that he was the man he was chasing after.
Pugh Jones was summoned to a breach hearing in January for failing to comply with the terms of his sentence. He did not attend and a warrant was issued for his arrest. He was not located and detained until last week.
The Recorder told Pugh-Jones that as his progress came to a grinding halt in December, he had no confidence he would continue with the programme should it be extended.
