A GOLDFISH THROWN15ft through the air in a motorway smash is feeling back in the swim.

Bercy was hurled from his tank and out of his owner’s car in the accident on the M1 in Leicestershire.

Police arrived on the scene to find the sodden vehicle littered with coloured gravel.

As owner Sophia Underhill, 23, was treated for neck and arm injuries, officers combed the carriageway for the four-year-old pet.

They found nothing until an officer sweeping up glass spotted the tiny fish lying in the middle of the outside lane.

As he was out of water for 15 minutes, police thought he was dead.

But a paramedic put him in a tray of water in the forlorn hope of saving him.

‘Amazingly, Bercy started to swim around as soon as he was put in the water,’ said one officer.

Both he and his owner are now fully recovered.