IN scenes reminiscent of OJ Simpson’s infamous chase, a man is on the run after leading police on a highway pursuit in a motorhome with the incident broadcast on live TV.

Police chased the motorhome, which had two young children and a dog on aboard, along the LA freeway system, through local traffic and to a rural area off the 99 freeway.

The New York Post reports, the driver of the RV is an armed domestic violence suspect, according to ABC 7.

Two young children, who were allegedly kidnapped, were in the motorhome when it was stopped outside Bakersfiled. A dog was also in the vehicle but the suspect had fled.

The motor home was clocked doing about 55 miles per hour (88km/h) on the 101 Freeway in the San Fernando Valley with about 12 police cars trailing behind, NBC Los Angeles reported.

Sheriff’s deputies in Santa Clarita had also chased the suspect earlier on Tuesday, local time, after the children’s mother called the police, but that pursuit was cancelled, ABC 7 reports.

Police chased the vehicle through the Universal City area of California, close to where many of Hollywood’s biggest production studios are housed.

Police were prepared for a hostage situation after the chase because the suspect allegedly has kidnapped the 11-month-old and three-year-old child who were inside the vehicle.

The suspect is believed to be a parolee at large.

Police say he is Stephen Houk, who fled from the RV before police arrived.

Officials have confirmed Houk is the biological father of the children found in the vehicle.

The freeway chase was reminiscent of O.J. Simpson’s infamous pursuit in his Ford Bronco in 1994, which was also covered live by TV networks.

O.J. was acquitted of the brutal slayings of his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ron Goldman in 1995 but, at a 1997 civil trial, was found liable for the deaths.

Simpson was arrested on June 17, 1994, after leading cops in a chase around Southern California in the white Ford Bronco driven by pal Al Cowlings.

Nearly a quarter-century after his slow-speed police chase in the SUV was televised live to captivated viewers around the world, the former NFL great was released from a Nevada prison he had called home for almost nine years after an armed-robbery conviction, in July last year.