A man wielding a machete stole and then crashed a woman’s car in Greater Manchester.
Police are now appealing for witnesses after the incident which took place in Leigh.
At around 4.15pm on Friday 12 May 2017, a 35-year-old woman was in her white Mitsubishi Lancer on Bradshawgate, at the junction of King Street, when a man drove into the back of her car.
The man driving the other car, a dark grey Volvo estate, pulled alongside the woman and signalled for her to follow him before driving down King Street and onto St Helens Road.
As the car came to a stop on Etherstone Street, and the woman got out of her car, she was met by a man carrying a machete and wearing a balaclava.
He punched her and kicked her to the ground before taking her keys and getting into her car with another man, a passenger from the Volvo. They drove along St Helens Road before crashing the vehicle a short time later on Newton Road, Lowton.
The woman suffered cuts to her head, bruising to her knees and elbows and swelling to her face.
Officers are appealing for witnesses to the incident and are particularly interested in speaking to a woman who witnessed the initial collision.