Wild footage captured how a driver received a taser in the chest in his car.
The bodycam footage was released after Mathew Thomas Druett, 29, was released from custody on Friday, more than four months after the September 25 incident.
Druett was stopped by officers in Reid, Canberra, at about 2.35am that morning because his number plates were partially obscured by a sticker.
After police discovered discrepancies between the license plates and the vehicle, Druett was tasered in the chest by an officer.
The footage shows the car lurching forward again before an officer was able to remove the keys from the ignition and pull Druett out of the car and arrest him.
Wild footage has been released of a man trying to flee from police despite being tasered in the chest after a traffic stop in Canberra in September (pictured)
On Friday, Druett was sentenced in the ACT Supreme Court to nine months’ imprisonment, suspended on a 12-month good behavior bond.
He pleaded guilty to driving recklessly near police and driving without a license.
A police investigation into the incident revealed that the car had been stolen and sold to Druett for just $500 because it had a bad engine.
The prosecutor did not accuse him of stealing the car, nor of knowing it was stolen.
Druett told the court he bought it to travel home to Surf Beach, on the NSW south coast, to attend a relative’s birthday.
Agreed facts stated that police witnessed Druett turn the wheel and begin to drive away when he was told to turn off the engine.
His defense attorney, Sam Lynch, told the court that Druett tried to get out of the way of police and accelerated only once after being tasered.
Mr Lynch also told the court his client had made a ‘defective error of judgement’ after realizing the seriousness of the situation.
The court heard Mathew Thomas Druett, 29, made a ‘flawed’ decision when he tried to escape from police and was released on Friday with a suspended prison sentence.
The court heard Druett had a traumatic childhood and has spent the past four months in custody trying to rehabilitate himself.
Presiding Judge Chrissa Loukas-Karlsson accepted Druett’s efforts and said he must continue to become the type of father his children “need.”
“You have to become the best version of yourself … so that your children can become the best version of themselves,” she told the court, according to the Canberra Star.
‘You are still young, you can give your life a different direction.’