A funny video has emerged of an alleged thief driving his scooter into a wall during a failed getaway.

The CCTV footage, filmed in Jiangxi province, China on Tuesday, shows the alleged thief reaching into a woman's car at a petrol station and appearing to take her handbag.

He then drives off as staff chase him, but the getaway goes wrong when he clips a post and veers off into a wall.

The woman got her bag back and the man taken to hospital with injuries.

Police are reportedly investigating the incident.