A 16-year-old was indecently assaulted as she tried to escape a man who was attempting to abduct her in a Coventry street.

The teenager was walking down Grayswood Avenue in Coundon at about 9.30am on Friday when the man drove alongside her in a silver Honda.

He whistled at her and tried to talk to her.

He then stopped the car and got out, and asked the girl to go for a ride with him.

The attacker then pushed her towards the car. While the victim’s arms were outstretched as she tried to prevent herself being forced in the car, the man indecently assaulted her.

A few seconds later the girl found herself sitting in the front passenger seat of the car.

As the man ran around the car to get back in the driver’s seat, she got out.

He reversed the car alongside her and tried to speak to her again through an open window, but she ran inside a shop to escape.

The victim said that as he reversed at high-speed he narrowly avoided colliding with a red coloured car.

DS Malcolm McCutcheon of Little Park Street CID said:

“The girl was upset but was not hurt. I would appeal to any witnesses who saw what happened, or the driver of the red car to contact us urgently.

“It was a frightening incident but thankfully she managed to escape from the clutches of this man.”

The attacker is Asian, aged around 30, chubby build and about 5ft 8in.