This is the moment a Range Rover driver attempted to evade police along a railway line on Thursday morning sparking travel chaos.
Police attempted to pull over the black 4x4 in Windmill Lane, next to Cheshunt Station, but the driver reversed, throwing an officer to the ground and smashing into parked cars.
The car was then filmed speeding along the railway in front of shocked commuters at 10am.
The driver abandoned the car on the tracks between Cheshunt station and Waltham Cross station causing major delays. It is unknown if police followed the vehicle onto the railway.
Disruption was expected to last until 2pm.
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A cab operator at Cheshunt Station Cars told the Standard that one of his drivers had been hit in the collision as the suspect sped away. “The police tried to pull him over and he just reversed them out of the way, the officer fell over.
“He smashed through the barrier at the station and went on to the track. It’s crazy I’ve never heard of anything like that.
“He wrote off one of our cars. Our driver wasn’t trying to stop him he was just in the way. But all our drivers are safe now.”
Greater Anglia rail announced the disruption on Twitter without mentioning the police chase.
They tweeted: “All lines are blocked at Cheshunt due to an obstruction on the line. Services between Liverpool Street & #Cheshunt, Bishop’s Stortford, Hertford East, Stansted Airport and Cambridge are being disrupted.”
A British Transport Police spokeswoman added: “Officers received a report of a car on the railway line in Cheshunt at 9.43am today. Officers are currently on scene responding to the incident alongside colleagues from Hertfordshire Police and Essex Police.”
