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Martial arts instructor, John Barlow, 59, was driving down the M62 with his family on Sunday when he passed a motorist who had blood pouring from his mouth.

Mr Barlow said the passed-out driver was in his “mid-to-late 60s” and looked “grey” and covered in blood.

He described the scene as probably one of the worst things he had ever seen in his life and feared the driver was dead.

He said: “When I looked in his car, it was pretty horrific. He looked dead if I’m being honest with you.

“I said to my wife: ‘Oh my god, I think he’s dead!’

“He was grey, his head was slumped a little bit forward, and he had blood and all kinds of stuff coming out of his mouth and trickling down his chin. I could see that his lips had gone blue.”

Thinking quickly, John then pulled in front of the vehicle and slowed down until he was able to bring the car to a standstill.

John, from Middleton, Greater Manchester, said he was travelling Eastbound along the M62 at 3pm, near Leeds, when he came across the slow-moving Audi.

He said: “I was with my son, and we bought him a little Burmese cat. They’re quite rare, so we were travelling over to Scunthorpe to collect this little cat for him.

“We got passed Leeds, and I noticed the traffic slowing down, and it got slower and slower.

“It just seemed strange that this guy was in the outside lane and getting slower. He was going 50mph, and then he got slower still, and some cars started undertaking him.”

John pulled in front of the car, which had begun slowing down to around 30mph, and used his family SUV to slow the car down until it stopped.

He said: “I very slowly started slowing down. It was a bit of a crunch when he first hit, and then he crunched again.

“Once he hit the second time, I thought he won’t bounce too far, and then I put my brakes on and slowed him down until he ground to a stop.”

He was later joined by a local tradesman who used a hammer to smash through the passenger side window and John used his first aid skills to help him breathe again.

John said: “I could see straight away that he wasn’t breathing – it was like a very faint gurgling noise.

“But I’m a coach at Middleton Martial Arts Academy, and fortunately, we had a fresher course on first aid, so what I did was took the top of his head and tilted it back to help him breathe.

“He took a big gasp of air, but it was really laboured and gurgling.”

John was later joined by an off-duty physiotherapist, police officer and doctor, and together they worked to stabilise the man before paramedics arrived.

Luckily, the driver survived the horrifying incident and was back with his family later that day.

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