POLICE have released dashcam footage of a high-speed chase on the M61.
The video shows officers in an unmarked car following a driver down the motorway just after noon on Thursday, September 12.
The vehicle, a silver BMW, is thought to have been stolen during in an incident in Lancashire.
However, once police spotted the car, the driver attempted a dramatic escape - even trying to "drive the wrong way along M61".
After hunting the vehicle along the motorway police were able to shunt the car to a stop at the exit for junction two for Salford and Manchester city centre.
Nobody was injured in the chase and the driver was arrested on suspicion of burglary.
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