A TERRIFIED childminder ran screaming into a main road pub after a masked thug with a baseball bat forced her out of her husband's car then sped away in it.

Car-jacking victim Lorraine Crick has described the nightmare incident which happened on Sunday night in Tyldesley.

The 42 year-old mother-of-two, who was fortunately uninjured but stunned by her ordeal, said: "I had arranged to pick-up my husband, Steve, from the Colliers Arms pub in Sale Lane and had parked in a lay-by on Hawthorn Close alongside the pub.

"It was about 7.55pm and I was waiting for him to come out when suddenly a man flung the driver's door open and twice told me to 'Get out of the ******* car.' He had a baseball bat which I don't think he would have been afraid of using if I hadn't done as he said..

"He got into the driver's seat and another man, who I hadn't seen until then got into the passenger side.

"I ran into the pub shouting and screaming to my husband that someone had stolen the car. Steve ran outside with a friend and saw the car being driven off towards Tyldesley town centre."

Mrs Crick, who lives in the Tyldesley area, said the man who drove off in the almost new silver coloured Volkswagen Golf, registration number HG54 DYN, was stockily built and about 5ft 11inches tall. He wore black clothing and a black balaclava. His accomplice was of a similar appearance and also masked. She said the man who ordered her out of the car did not have a distinguishing accent.

"It was just horrendous, something you don't expect in a quiet place like this. They had obviously gone out determined to get something."

The company vehicle, a base model Golf, belonged to her 47 year-old husband who is a co-ordinator manager at Manchester Airport.

Police are monitoring CCTV footage from cameras in Sale Lane and also in Tyldesley and would like anyone with any further information to contact CID on 0161 856 7209 or Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111.