USAIN BOLT stormed to a world’s best of 14.35 seconds over 150 metres on the streets of Manchester last night.

Bolt, the reigning world record holder at 100m and 200m, left the rest of the field — including British sprinter Marlon Devonish — in his wake in the BUPA Great Manchester 150m event.

And the 100m and 200m Olympic champion now insists he can lower his own 100m world mark of 9.69 seconds — set in Beijing last summer — to 9.4sec.

Jamaican Bolt almost had to pull out of last night’s race in Deansgate when he crashed his car into a ditch back home on April 29.

He only returned to full training last week having had stitches in his left foot.

But in his first outing this year, he covered the first 100m in an astonishing 9.9sec.

And he went on to smash the previous best of 14.8sec for the 150m set by Italian Pietro Mennea in 1983 — when Bolt was not even born.

Bolt, 22, admitted: “I didn’t expect to run that fast. It’s my first major run of the season and I was happy just to come out and run. I don’t even think I’m in the best of shape and I still have a lot of work to do.

“My coach had second thoughts about sending me after the crash but I wanted to come here.”

Bolt is already favourite for the 100m gold at this summer’s World Championships in Berlin and thinks the time will soon reach a level that will never be broken.

He said: “It will stop somewhere near 9.4.

“If someone brings the record down to 9.4, then that has got to be it for everybody.

“If I’m in good shape anything is possible.”

Devonish, who won 4x100m gold in Athens, was second in 15.07sec with American Ivory Williams third in 15.08sec.

Bolt now plans to run the 100m at the London Grand Prix at Crystal Palace on July 24 as part of his preparations for the World Championships in Berlin.