A DRIVER who towed his friends in two makeshift sledges behind his 4x4 has boasted he would do it again – only faster.

As exclusively reported in your Worcester News on Saturday, Daniel Pearce drove through a quiet residential street in Holt Heath, near Worcester, with his friends sitting in two plastic children’s paddling pools tied to the back of his truck.

A 57-second video clip posted on social networking site Facebook shows four laughing people being pulled around in the paddling pools. At one point, one of the men is hurled out of his sledge as he desperately tries to stop himself being slammed against two parked cars.

Their antics have been criticised by West Mercia Police, who described it as “extremely dangerous”.

Officers have since said they will be attempting to talk to Mr Pearce, warning someone could have been injured or even killed.

Yesterday Mr Pearce, a 25-year-old builder from Holt Heath, said: "We’re just having a bit of fun. It’s a bit dangerous, but so what. I haven’t been nicked yet but I don’t care even if I am.

"At the end of the day if the police do anything it’ll be a slap on the wrist but it’ll be worth it.

"I’ve got a shotgun licence and they only give those out to responsible people like me.

"Of course I’d do it all over again but I’d go faster next time. I’ve got nothing to regret or be sorry about. I’m a good driver."

Builder Shaun Crumpton, 23, who is seen in a fluorescent jacket in the makeshift sleigh, said: “The first time I got in I thought I was going to die. It swerved round the corner and almost hit a car but everyone was having a laugh.

“We’ve done loads of stuff like this in the past, I can’t understand why everyone is so upset."

One villager says she was sworn at when she asked the gang to stop sledging around the roads.

"I was determined not to stand by and let a load of people brazenly break the law,” said the woman, who did not wish to be named.

"It was terribly dangerous to be pulled on the back of a car in such treacherous conditions. I went out and told them someone could get hurt but they laughed in my face.”