M61 dashcam footage shows the moment a thief escaped from cops - by sprinting across six lanes of motorway traffic

Dramatic dashcam footage shows the moment a thief escaped from cops - by sprinting across six lanes of motorway traffic.
By Iain Lynn
Published 16th Feb 2020, 06:00 BST
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Police can be seen tailing a van which was towing another van before ushering the vehicles into a hard shoulder.

To their complete shock a man bursts from the towed van and frantically sprints a short distance up the road before running into traffic.

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He miraculously managed to cross three lanes going in either direction without being hit or causing an accident before running to freedom.

A man bursts from the towed van and frantically sprints a short distance up the road before running into trafficA man bursts from the towed van and frantically sprints a short distance up the road before running into traffic
A man bursts from the towed van and frantically sprints a short distance up the road before running into traffic

Cops arrested the driver on suspicion of theft, but the other man remains at large.

The clip was captured by Greater Manchester Police (GMP) traffic officers at around 4pm on Wednesday on the M61 near Bolton.

A GMP spokesman tweeted: "There's no way I'm running across 6 lanes of a live motorway as I want to make it home safe at the end of a shift.

"I'm happy enough that one of the two offenders are now sat in a cell."