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A dangerous driver suffered instant karma after trying to ram a fleeing pedestrian during a a road rage incident.
Shocking footage showed a driver trying to mow down a passer-by in a small blue car as he ran along the road in fear.
The squeal of tires and brakes could be heard as the car raced down the busy street lined with parked cars and moving traffic towards a man dressed in pink shorts.
The man was only saved by a lamp post which stopped the car from running in to the back of him.
The clip showed the car mounting the pavement in pursuit of the pedestrian who quickly nipped behind the lamppost, leaving the car wedged in to a wall.
The vehicle, which only narrowly missed the scared man then reversed off the pavement with its bumper hanging off before chasing the man down once again who had tried to flee.
The car drove up and down the street while a man on the video could be heard shouting: ‘F***ing hell that was crazy’.
The chaos was caught on camera by David Lloyd Jones in Ashton-under-Lyne, Greater Manchester, in August 2024.
Shocking footage showed a driver trying to mow down a passer-by in a small blue car as he ran along the road in fear and was only saved by a lamp post
The squeal of tires and brakes could be heard as the car raced down the busy street lined with parked cars and moving traffic towards a man dressed in pink shorts
It’s not clear if the two men knew each other.
David said: ‘I filmed a bunch of people flipping out. I didn’t know them.’
The Daily Mail has contacted Greater Manchester Police.
It comes after a suspected shoplifter received instant karma when he was taken down by two police officers on bicycles manufactured by a toy store.
The footage, shared by the Havering branch of the Metropolitan Police, shows the man leaving the Marks & Spencer store in The Liberty Shopping Centre, Romford, east London, with a basket full of seemingly stolen goods.
Wearing a checked blue shirt with denim shorts and white trainers, the suspected thief then appears to notice he is being tailed by one officer and begins running away from them while holding the basket.
Looking to cross the road, the man then runs straight into the path of the other officer, whose oncoming bike he collides with.
Shouts of ‘Alright, mate, stop where you are,’ and ‘Police. Stop where you are now,’ can be heard before he is apprehended, his basket whittling away as he is brought down.
The footage shows the man leaving the Marks & Spencer store with a basket full of seemingly stolen goods
Wearing a checked blue shirt with denim shorts and white trainers, he then appears to notice he is being tailed by one officer and begins running away
Looking to cross the road, the suspected thief then runs straight into the path of the other officer, whose oncoming bike he collides with before being apprehended
Prior to being caught, CCTV footage in the store, captured at around 1pm on June 10, shows the man packing items such as bacon into his basket.
It is unknown what else he appears to have stolen or the total value of the basket, but alternate angles of him leaving the shop show the basket to be much fuller than just one packet of meat.
Posting the video to X, Havering MPS hailed the apprehension of the man as ‘community policing in action’ which helps ‘keep local people and businesses safe’.
MailOnline has approached the Metropolitan Police for more information.
