Hair-raising helicopter footage shows off-road biker causing havoc across Wigan

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Dramatic helicopter footage shows the moment an off-road biker was chased through Wigan by police before being arrested. Officers tackling antisocial behaviour involving motorbikes and quad bikes followed the rider, a man in his 20s, through Tyldesley on Sunday (July 7).

While on patrol, police were alerted by the National Police Air Service (NPAS) to the biker driving along footpaths and roads.

After seeing the police, the driver sped off in a bid to evade them, mounting pavements, running red lights and driving the wrong way down main roads. READ MORE Two dead in M62 horror as crash between two lorries and car shuts motorway for hours Helicopter footage released by GMP shows NPAS following the bike through the area, before it was tracked to an address on Elliot Street.

The bike and rider were located at the address. Officers arrested the suspect on suspicion of dangerous driving, failing to stop, no license and no insurance, with the off-road bike seized in the process.