A MILDURA man with a "terrible" history of drug and driving offences came "perilously close" to being sent to jail this week after again being nabbed by police on similar offending.

Thirty-two-year-old Deon Brown fronted Mildura Magistrates' Court where he admitted driving on the wrong side of the road on Ontario Avenue to evade police as well as drug possession charges.

The court was told Brown...