Three young men are walking casually across a street corner.
A few yards behind them is a female pedestrian also on the pavement.
Suddenly her step quickens as she senses the roar of a car engine inches behind her.
But she has no time to react.
The stolen Nissan X-Trail, speeding at 60mph in a 30mph zone as it tries to shake off pursuing police, hits the woman then smashes into a wall, bollards, and a parked car.
In the chaotic aftermath, two men dressed in black bail out of the car and run. A third casually walks away.
A police car appears seconds later and officers give chase.
Meanwhile, pitifully, the 36-year-old victim is seen crawling away from the wreckage.
She suffered a broken back, pelvis, and leg.
The driver of the car was Ryan Deans, 33, who has now been locked up for four and a half years after the incident in Cheetham Hill.
Deans was able to escape from the scene as police chased and caught his passenger Thomas Keogh after noticing he had a knife.
After officers stopped Keogh, 29, he "pretended to have a fit", Manchester Crown Court was told.
Because of a suspected head injury Keogh was given priority, meaning the woman's treatment was delayed.
The court was told police became suspicious of the X-Trail at about 5.45pm on April 3rd at the junction of Waterloo Road and Cheetham Hill Road, and decided to follow.
The car was on false plates and had been stolen in a burglary in Longsight two days earlier.
Deans panicked after realising he was being followed and a chase ensued.
He jumped a red light and hit 60mph overtaking other cars during a two-minute chase.
Deans mounted the pavement at the junction of Woodlands Street and Cheetham Hill Road, hitting the woman who was thrown several metres.
As police chased Keogh, Deans "nonchalantly" walked away.
Deans, of Eccles, pleaded guilty to causing injury by dangerous driving, handling stolen goods, driving while disqualified, failing to stop and driving without insurance.
Keogh, from Fallowfield, pleaded guilty to aggravated vehicle taking and having a blade in a public, and was banned form driving and was jailed for 21 months.
A third man, Ellis Barrett, of Tarporley Avenue, Manchester, was sentenced to a community order, curfew with a tag, and disqualified from driving after pleading guilty to theft without consent and being carried in a stolen motor vehicle.
