text: These are the unbelievable scenes captured on a police car dashcam when a man drove at 80 miles per hour in a bid to escape arrest. Yassir Ali, 29, of no-fixed-abode, was stopped by traffic police in Birmingham at 3.45pm on February 22 after officers suspected the silver BMW 1 series may have been stolen. The camera footage shows the car pull over to the side of the road and a man get out of the passenger seat. Scroll down for video . The BMW drives recklessly through Birmingham, crossing over to the wrong side of the road against traffic . The police car struggles to keep up with the BMW after it flies through several red lights . The passenger stands in front of the police squad car while Ali speeds off. The man attempts to block the squad car while Ali tries to escape at break-neck speeds. After a few seconds, the squad car forces its way past the man and follows the BMW 1 series. The 29-year-old then raced through red lights and on the wrong side of the road, narrowly missing oncoming traffic. The dramatic chase happened as school children left their classrooms on their way home. Yassir Ali, pictured, was jailed for 14 monts for dangerous driving following the high-speed car chase through Birmingham in February . Ali flew through several junctions, ignoring red lights and pulling onto the wrong side of the road in a desperate attempt to avoid capture. The police squad car tries to keep up with Ali, but on several occasions was forced to slow down because of the danger posed to other road users. The dashcam footage shows that roads were very wet at the time of the chase and it was raining fairly heavily. Eventually the police were able to arrest Ali after he lost control of the car as he tried to swerve around a line of traffic and got stuck between a bollard and the front of a shop. Ali was jailed at Birmingham Crown Court for 14 months for dangerous driving. PC Neal Drew, from the Central Motorway Policing Group, said: 'Ali's actions that day were completely unacceptable and by driving the way he did he put innocent members of the public at risk. 'We take this kind of dangerous driving extremely seriously and that has been reflected in the lengthy sentence handed down by the courts.' At some stages during the chase, the BMW touched 80 miles an hour despite the rain and other traffic . Ali lost control of the car and got it stuck on a bollard outside a shop, right, where he was arrested . Ali's friend stood in front of the police car to prevent it from chasing after the suspicious sliver BMW . Police pull over the BMW 1 series in Birmingham on February 22 on suspicion of it being stolen .
target: Yassir Ali, 29, flew through red lights during the two-minute chase .
  Ali was pulled over by police who suspected that his BMW was stolen .
  Ali, of no-fixed-abode, sped off on a two-minute-long car chase .
  He crashed the BMW into a bollard in front of a shop and was arrested .