Stowaways filmed leaping out of truck on busy highway

A group of men has been filmed leaping out of a moving truck as it drove down a busy highway in England.

The 13 stowaways narrowly avoided being hit by other cars as they jumped from the Polish-registered vehicle near Northamptonshire on Saturday.

The entire ordeal was posted to Facebook by a man who said his parents filmed it.

"My parents were driving up to see my newborn today and saw these mad b------s jumping out of a lorry on the M1!" Jake Thorpe wrote.

"Their car is the Vauxhall right up beside it trying to keep the f---s from jumping down... shame he wasn't driving his Artic as he could've trapped them inside!"

The video shows one man falling out backwards from the truck while several others rush towards the road’s shoulder and begin to flee down the highway.

Police were called to the scene and arrested the men, who were later handed over to the Home Office.

“Officers attended, located and detained 13 people who were taken into custody. Immigration officials were then called,” a spokesman for Northhamptonshire police said.