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Manchester Evening News
Manchester Evening News
National
John Scheerhout

'What the f*** are you doing?' ... police are looking for driver who hit a car, mounted the pavement and careered into a lamp-post

Police are searching for the driver of this car after it hit another vehicle and smashed into a lamp-post.

The vehicle had been captured on CCTV overtaking other cars at speed moments before it suffered extensive damage during the incident on Cheetham Hill Road in Stalybridge on Saturday.

The driver managed to get out and was seen heading away from the scene on foot, say police.

CCTV camera footage from the scene, being shared on social media, shows the car skidding sideways along the road and then onto the pavement.

It was heading towards the garden of a house until it was stopped by the lamp-post.

The driver is seem to hobble out of the damaged car where he seems to tend to tend to an injury as a number of concerned residents gather at the scene.

"Can you check if I'm bleeding? I don't know if I'm bleeding. So sorry about that," the driver says.

(Google Street View)

One of the residents is heard to respond: "What the f*** are you doing?"

"We desperately need traffic calming measures on Cheetham Hill Road now before someone is killed or seriously injured," wrote Peter Carter on Facebook.

Now Greater Manchester Police are trying to locate the driver.

The Vauxhall Corsa crashed on Cheetham Hill Road in Stalybridge (GMP)

In a post on the force's Tameside North and East Facebook page, the force said: "Officers are keen to speak to the driver of this vehicle after it was involved in a road traffic collision on Cheetham Hill Road, Stalybridge.

"The driver of this vehicle is seen on CCTV to be driving dangerously overtaking vehicles at speed when it collided with another vehicle which sent him into a spin.

"The vehicle then collided with a lamp post.

"Luckily no one was seriously injured. The driver managed to get out of the vehicle and make off towards Stalybridge on foot."

Police are collecting more CCTV of the incident and are urging anyone with information about the incident or the driver to call GMP on 101 quoting log 1974-25072020.

Alternatively, people can contact Crimestoppers, anonymously, on 0800 555111.

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