A Hamilton woman is traumatised after her car was taken from her at gunpoint this afternoon.
The young woman was getting into her car on Belmont Ave about 3pm when a man approached her with a gun and stole her car.
He was spotted in Huntly an hour later, but would not stop for police.
Police started a pursuit and laid road spikes, but the man only stopped when the vehicle crashed into a police car.
The man was being questioned by police in Hamilton.
The woman was uninjured in the incident.