A CAR ended up with its rear end in a hedge following a police chase.
On Friday night, residents were forced onto the street as two police vans and a police car surrounded a car which had crashed into a hedge on Surrey Avenue in Darwen.
It is believed the police were pursuing a vehicle containing two occupants and when the car crashed, both the driver and passenger fled.
One man was apprehended not far from the crashed car while police used the force's drone to locate the second.
A nearby resident who witnessed the aftermath said: "It was about 10.15pm and I was sat in my back garden and I could hear sirens,.
"Then all of a sudden they got louder and I heard a screech and what sounded like car brakes and then heard a crash.
"I came out of my house to see what had happened as I thought there'd been an accident, and there were police everywhere, at least two vans and another car, and then I saw there was a car with its back end in a hedge."
The resident said she then saw a person run from the vehicle with police chasing him through a garden.
She added: "The man was arrested and put in the back of a police van, which then drove off. But then the police drone went up.
"This is the second time someone has been arrested on this street in the last week, I don't know what's going on in Darwen at the moment."
The police have been contacted for a statement.
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