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This is the the heart-stopping moment a delivery driver sparks chaos by repeatedly crashing on the motorway.

Police said it was ‘pure luck’ no-one was killed or seriously injured when driver Awil Hayow went on his rampage.

CCTV shows the red van swerving between lanes and hitting another van before spinning out of control and hurtling towards oncoming traffic at 90 degrees.

Other drivers between junctions 5 and 6 of the M6 Motorway had to take evasive action in order not to be hit.


But astonishingly, Hayow, 34, straightened up the van and drove off again. But seconds later he struck a Nissan Juke and shunted it onto the hard shoulder.



Traffic was forced to swerve out of the way as the van’s bumper fell off.

CCTV footage shows the red van swerving between lanes on the M6 (Picture: SWNS)

Awil Hayow, 34, was arrested after getting into a boxers stance when police arrived (Picture: SWNS)

Hayow then went on to send a Ford Transit spinning as he swerved from the hard shoulder into lane one.

The incident continued for a short distance before giving up and waiting on the hard shoulder.

When he was approached by police, he adopted a boxer’s stance and resisted arrest, as other vehicles passed.

Officers used spray on him, but he only gave up resisting when an officer armed with a Taser arrived.

He refused to give breath sample after he was arrested, at around 2pm on July 1.

Police say it was ‘pure luck’ no one was killed or injured (Picture: SWNS)

Hayow, of no fixed address, admitted dangerous driving, failing to provide specimen and obstructing a PC.

He will be sentenced at Birmingham Crown Court on August 13.

Sergeant Mitch Darby, from the Central Motorway Police Group, said: ‘This is a really bad case of dangerous driving.

‘At no point did Hayow make any attempt to contact with the emergency services to report the collisions, check on the other drivers or report the fact the his van was stationary in a live lane of traffic with vehicles driving towards it.

‘He showed a total disregard for the safety of other motorists who were on the M6, and it is only down to pure luck that no-one was seriously injured or killed because of his driving.’

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