Shocking moment driver pushes Manchester Marathon marshal along on bonnet of car to avoid diversion at Barton Road and Kingsway crossroads

Video footage has emerged of an incident between a motorist and several marshals at Sunday’s Manchester Marathon.

Dozens of roads in Trafford were closed off to accommodate thousands of runners completing the 26-mile trek, including Urmston Lane and Kingsway, in Stretford.

The video shows the volunteer marshal being pushed along the road as he tries to stop the driver 

A video, which has been viewed more than 64,000 times on Facebook, shows a driver of a red Peugeot attempting to pass through bollards blocking the road at the Barton Road crossroads.

The driver drives into one of the marshals trying to stop them from veering into the path of runners, pushing him along the road on the bonnet.

Other drivers taje advantage of the commotion at the crossroads by sneaking past the cordoned off area

As fellow marshals rush over to the commotion, two drivers can be seen sneaking past the bollards and into the cordoned off area, as the person recording shouts, "You can't do that, you can't do that".

A row breaks out as the driver appears to shout: “We need to go through we need to get home.”

The driver appears to back off and reverse when told that they would have to take another route but then revs up their car and creeps forward again.

The video shows marshal rushing to try and block the car from going any further

Melanie Barber, who posted the video on Facebook, said: “So to anyone who doesn't know what marshals put up with!

“This is the kind of behaviour we as marshals giving up our Sunday have to put up with.

“We do this for free to try and keep those awesome runners safe!

“And to explain what was happening: driver wouldn’t adhere to the fact she wasn’t allowed to drive onto the road as that's where the runners were!

“So she wanted to drive into the runners!”