AMERICAN TV star Jesse McClure got to see the 'mean streets of Burnley' yesterday.

The Storage Hunters star was travelling through the town at lunchtime when he witnessed the dramatic ending to a police chase.

The Californian grabbed his phone and filmed police officers boxing in a suspected stolen car before hauling its occupant away.

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Jesse said: "With my American brain, I thought, 'This is not going to end good', but then I remembered you guys are a little less lethal and more humane.

"To see somebody die on my trip was not on the list."

Jesse had just been to lunch with friends when he was waiting in traffic at around 12.40pm, close to the junction of Accrington Road and Rossendale Road.

He hit the record button on my phone when he saw a dark coloured Vauxhall Zafira smash into a utility box on a small traffic island at the junction.

He said: "The car backed up and tried to do a u-turn and there were two police cars behind him. I had to get it filmed.

"It happened so fast. There was a sign for Burnley Cemetery and I'm glad that didn't turn out to be ironic."

Jesse uploaded the 92 second clip to video sharing website YouTube and told users he got to see the 'mean streets of Burnley' on his way to visit Scott Dawson Advertising in Billington Road.

The footage, taken from the inside of a car, shows the Vauxhall ram another car in a desperate bid to escape police.

However, it was boxed in by several police cars and 4x4s and left with nowhere to go.

A man was then filmed being pulled from the car and along the ground by officers, while a police dog straddles him.

His screams can be heard clearly over the mass of sirens.

Jesse said the officers' actions were justified and appropriate — and said the whole thing could have ended differently if it was not for their prompt actions.

He said: "Props to Lancashire Police for taking care of that carefully and swiftly.

"In my opinion, I thought it was handled in an appropriate fashion, so massive props to the British police on that one."

Jesse has spent a lot of time in East Lancashire recently, working with both marketing agency Scott Dawson Advertising, and Accrington Stanley Football Club.