These are the scenes in Audenshaw tonight as a police car ended up overturned on its roof following a pursuit after a knife-point car-jacking.
The incident happened at the junction between Audenshaw Road and Ash Street at around 7pm.
Pictures show a police patrol car overturned in the carriageway and a red car appears to have been abandoned on the pavement.
Witnesses said on social media that the police car flipped over following a pursuit in the area.
Police were "chasing a red car," a witness wrote in a Facebook post.
"Passenger of car bailed at speed then the driver slammed on to do a runner too and the police car collided with it and flipped."
Greater Manchester Police later said they were called at around 6.15pm to reports of a car-jacking at knifepoint on Brookhill Close in Oldham.
"Responding officers became engaged in pursuit of the suspected offending vehicle and a tactical collision took place on Audenshaw Road.
"A police officer suffered minor injuries as a result of the collision and did not require hospital treatment.
"The victim of the car-jacking wasn’t injured but was left understandably shaken", they added..
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