{"id":408462,"date":"2026-02-05T02:02:13","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T02:02:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/408462\/"},"modified":"2026-02-05T02:02:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T02:02:13","slug":"dramatic-footage-as-driver-seen-ramming-into-police-cars-in-greater-manchester-street","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/408462\/","title":{"rendered":"Dramatic footage as driver seen ramming into police cars in Greater Manchester street"},"content":{"rendered":"

The incident was shared widely on social media\"Dramatic<\/p>\n

Dramatic footage captured the driver striking the police car(Image: Jack Khan \/ Facebook)<\/p>\n

Dramatic footage captured the moment a driver was seen ramming into police cars during an incident in a Greater Manchester street.<\/p>\n

Police were seen attempting to block the Nissan Juke driver in, wedged next to a wall along Plodder Lane in the Farnworth area of Bolton<\/a> on Wednesday (February 4).<\/p>\n

Videos posted on Facebook showed how officers later exited their vehicles before the car was seen to reverse into a police vehicle and plough past the other to make an escape.<\/p>\n

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The incident was caught on camera and shared on social media(Image: Jack Khan \/ Facebook)<\/p>\n

The circumstances surrounding the incident have not been confirmed by Greater Manchester Police<\/a>, but the force has been approached for a statement.<\/p>\n

The driver is seen first attempting to speed past one of the police cars, but becomes wedged in against a garden wall. They they reverse into the front of the police car stationed behind, before pulling off at speed and escaping.<\/p>\n

Debris from the front of a damage police car could be seen strewn on the pavement. Witnesses claimed that the vehicle was later found.<\/p>\n

A clip of the incident was also shared on social media by Jack Khan, Workers Party of Britain candidate for Bolton South and Walkden<\/a>, who penned: “PLEASE PEOPLE. THIS IS BOLTON. PLEASE EVERYONE DRIVE SAFELY.” The video has since had more than 120,000 views.<\/p>\n

Greater Manchester Police has been contacted for a comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The incident was shared widely on social media Dramatic footage captured the driver striking the police car(Image: Jack…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":408463,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[2193,21558,59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-408462","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-kingdom","8":"tag-bolton","9":"tag-farnworth","10":"tag-gb","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-greatbritain","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom","16":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=408462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408462\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/408463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=408462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=408462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=408462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}