A dangerous car chase has ended with a car crashing into a traffic light and the driver arrested.
The white Hyundai Elantra was seen driving at high speed through southwest Sydney for half an hour.
The car then crashed into a traffic light at an intersection near Barclay Rd in Baulkham Hills.
Aerial footage showed cops surrounding the car before arresting the passenger of the car.
The car is seen in the footage televised live as having Queensland number plates.
The chase began just after 10.30am after the car was spotted by police traveling at speed in Parramatta.
Dramatic footage captured earlier by a Nine News helicopter showed the vehicle speeding through multiple intersections, over double lines and nearly clipping a number of other motorists.
The vision also showed a woman with her legs on the car‘s dashboard while looking at her mobile phone.
The Daily Telegraph reported that police had called off a pursuit in interest of public safety.
The Sydney paper reported that two people – a man and a woman – had been taken into custody.
Dressed in a white hoodie and black leggings, the woman could be seen being led from the scene.
The male driver meanwhile sat handcuffed sitting against a power pole.
Traffic around North Rocks was banked up as police set up a crime scene, according to the DT.
The car had travelled through suburbs including Homebush, Parramatta, and North Parramatta.
The Daily Telegraph reported the pursuit began at Bankstown when police spotted the damaged vehicle, with a total of five cars at one point joining in the chase.
Aerial vision showed the car travelling along the M5 and then M7, swerving onto the wrong side of the road at speed, and even driving on the grass median strip of the busy highways to go around other cars.
The chase covered major Sydney roads including the M5 and M7, Great Western Highway, Reservoir Rd James Ruse Drive.
A police spokesperson said the PolAir helicopter had been monitoring the car prior to the crash.
They said police had not been pursuing the driver, but could not confirm if officers had disengaged.
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