A DRIVER of a stolen car has been arrested for drink driving after losing control of the vehicle.

Police officers arrested the driver after the car failed to stop and went the wrong way up Town Street in Horsforth and lost control.

The driver was also arrested for theft of motor vehicle and for being in the UK illegally.

One passenger was also arrested, while two more people made off from the car on foot, in a tweet from West Yorkshire Police's Roads Policing Unit.