Nearly hit by joyrider/criminal on the run

[OvertheHill]

View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YHU1vunigwk


Luckily I thought the sirens were an ambulance so I slowed down to pull over...

 

[Crankarm]

Blimey OTH, that police car's driving was awful ........

 

[HLaB]

that was close

 

[fossyant]

Blimey, where abouts in Manchester was that..........?

 

[Tharg2007]

will look out for you on street wars

 

[ComedyPilot]

I would ring the local police, and let them know you have footage. That way if/when they arrest anyone, then this will add as evidence against them.

 

[addictfreak]

While I fully support and understand the need to catch these people. I sometimes wonder just when a pursuit will be called off.
Usually we always the line, that it will be terminated if it become dangerous. Now that looked like rush hour traffic to me with cyclists and pedestrians around. And we have a police car persuing at speed on the footpath and fully commited to the wrong side of the road. If thats not dangerous, then Im not sure what is.

 

[GrasB]

Gulp, that could have re-invented your nick as flatonthehill .

I when I see things like that I wonder how the police let it escalate to that level.

 

[OvertheHill]

It was on the A56 Bury New Road outside the Arena. The direction they came from was the centre of Manchester and there were lots of people around because there's some concert there tonight. Very lucky really

 

[skudupnorth]

Kin eck that was close B) Hope the plod got the scum !

 

[magnatom]

Eek! B) The silver lining here is that you might get some money for the video if you sell it to RoadWars! I'm serious!

 

[OvertheHill]

Eek! B) The silver lining here is that you might get some money for the video if you sell it to RoadWars! I'm serious!

You're joking - how do I do that then?

 

[magnatom]

You're joking - how do I do that then?

They have had a call out in the past for videos from cyclists for their programmes. I think BentMikey might have got a video on, might be worth asking him who the contact was.

As this shows a car chase from a cyclists point of view, they might be interested. Don't expect thousands though...B)

 

[magnatom]

P.S. I expect a cut.....B)

 

[Sheffield_Tiger]

I would ring the local police, and let them know you have footage. That way if/when they arrest anyone, then this will add as evidence against them.

+1


I had similar once before and I was kicking myself after, since I had a big sturdy SIII land rover at the time and I saw the car driving like that, wish I'd been quicker thinking to just pull the thing across the gap