Story By: John Feng, Sub Editor: Joseph Golder, Agency: Asia Wire Report
Video Credit: AsiaWire
This is the moment a bungling lorry driver transporting a JCB crashes into a brand-new vehicle height bar and knocks it onto the bonnet of an oncoming saloon.
The freak accident happened in Lingcheng District in the city of Dezhou, in East China’s Shandong Province, on the evening of 21st October.
A CCTV camera at the junction of Xinshi Street and Tangcheng Road captured the flatbed lorry, driven by Mr Wang, 32, entering the crossroads with the digger on the back.
At the same time, saloon owner Mr Zhang, 24, approaches through the junction from the opposite direction, the video shows.
Mr Wang fails to notice the height clearance bar and crashes the excavator’s cabin into the underside of the metal rig, breaking it and causing it to drop onto Mr Zhang’s saloon.
The small car is immediately halted and bounces upwards as the vehicle height rig crashes onto it.
Local traffic police said Mr Zhang suffered minor injuries, but his badly damaged saloon needed to be towed away.
Mr Wang was not hurt, and the excavator was not occupied at the time of the accident.
According to reports, the vehicle clearance bar was only recently installed and had not been properly welded in place.
No arrest were made, but investigations are ongoing.
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