Truck 'bent like a banana' after high-speed chase through Sheffield ends in terrifying crash

Martin Rodgers says he and his family are lucky to be alive following the collision on Sheffield Parkway, near the junction with Prince of Wales Road, during the early hours of Sunday.

He told how they had been heading home in a taxi after celebrating his father's 73rd birthday in town when the drama unfolded at about 2am as their car waited at a roundabout.

"It clipped the side of our taxi and mounted the grass verge before flying over the junction and going straight into the side of a flat-back pick-up track.

"It pushed the truck what must have been 100-150 metres up the road before they both came to a stop, and then three occupants jumped out of the car and ran off.

"The maintenance men got out and they had to go to hospital but I believe they're OK.

"After what must have been another minute, the police arrived and it turned out they'd been pursuing the BMW along the Parkway but couldn't keep up with it."

He said it was amazing no one had been seriously injured in the crash.

"We were probably six inches from death. If the BMW had hit the back of the taxi he would have wiped us all out," he said.

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