A MAN has been arrested after a police chase through Great Harwood which ended in a crash.

The short pursuit started in Blackburn Road at around midnight on Thursday with the car crashing on the road towards Rishton, police said.

The driver was arrested at the scene after ‘suspected drugs were found in the car’.

A spokesman said: “At about midnight a car failed to stop for one of our traffic patrols in Great Harwood and after a short pursuit crashed on the road out towards Rishton.

“The driver was remarkably uninjured and was arrested at the scene after suspected drugs were found in the car.”