Shocking motorway footage shows 13 stowaways jump out of MOVING Polish lorry on M1
SHOCKING video showing 13 stowaways leaping from a moving lorry before fleeing through oncoming traffic on the M1 has emerged online.
Up to 40,000 people could be entering the UK in lorries each year, says an ex-Home Office boss
Shock as 13 men climb out of Polish lorry on M1
In the footage, one man narrowly misses being hit by a Vauxhall driving alongside the Polish-registered truck before another falls flat on his back after leaping on to the motorway.
The video, filmed from a vehicle behind a lorry on Saturday, begins as two men who have already jumped from the container flee along the hard shoulder.
One-by-one, 11 more stowaways emerge from the rear of the lorry and can be seen helping each other down on to the road.
Police said they detained all of the men before handing them over to immigration officials.
Two of the men can be seen running along the hard shoulder towards oncoming traffic
How many were not detected, managing to evade the attempts to stop them?
A spokesman for Northmptonshire police said: “Police were called at 11.50am on Saturday, September 23, to the M1 northbound, between junctions 15a and 16, to reports of people jumping off a lorry.
“Officers attended, located and detained 13 people who were taken into custody. Immigration officials were then called.”
A former Home Office boss claimed in June that up to 40,000 people could be entering the UK illegally through “lorry drops” each year.
One of the men falls from the lorry and hits the motorway just inches from a moving car
A report published by David Wood, former Director General of Immigration Enforcement, said that independent figures showed 6,429 migrants entered the UK illegally on or in the back of lorries between April and September 2015.
He said: “If that rate is maintained throughout the year, it would mean that the annual total of foreign nationals who were identified trying to get into Britain illegally by hiding in lorries would amount nearly 13,000.
“How many were not detected, managing to evade the attempts to stop them?
One of the men runs in front of oncoming traffic and across a slip road
“The ratio of successful attempts to unsuccessful ones is, for understandable reasons, not known.
“It could be as high as five to one; it is unlikely to be less than three to one.
“Let’s assume that it is three to one. Then nearly 40,000 migrants would arrive annually in Britain though this route.”
“Lorry drops” are defined as when foreign nationals are found on the back of a lorry, or trying to get off it, after that lorry has been through the UK border.