A driver has been filmed speeding the wrong way down a UK motorway yesterday as police give chase.

Dash-cam footage captured by a passing car shows a Volkswagen Golf travelling at high speed in the hard shoulder against traffic going northbound in the right direction on the M57 in the Knowsley area of Liverpool.

The video also captures a police car giving chase at high speed, travelling in the right direction of the motorway. It appears at 15 seconds into the video, under the bridge.

It is estimated that Golf could have been travelling as fast as 100mph in the wet conditions.

The incident took place yesterday morning (March 4) at 11.30am.

Writes the owner of the dash-cam footage: "It all happened very quickly and could have been very nasty. I could see his headlights in the distance [when the driver first swears in the video], then in no time at all he flew past."

Yesterday morning, at around 11:30 on the 4th of March 2018, I was travelling north on the M57 motorway in the Knowsley area of Liverpool. This is where I caught, on dash-cam, the lunatic Golf driver travelling at high speed down the hard shoulder towards oncoming traffic. As seen in the video it all happened very quickly and could have been very nasty.