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A MAN clashed with police following a car crash, angrily refusing a breath test. Freddie Bowers, who lives at Windmill Corner, Mortimer Common, claimed officers had dragged him violently from a vehicle. Helen Gambrill, prosecuting at Reading Magistrates’ Court on Wednesday, July 3, said: “Mr Bowers knocked on the door of a member of the public saying he had crashed the car just down the road and it was in a ditch. “A number of officers attended; the defendant was in the back of his car.” At that point, 19-year-old Mr Bowers interjected: “That’s all a load of lies.” Ms Gambrill continued, sayin…

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