Guard Catches Lowering Security Gate With His Bare Hands To Stop It Hitting Car

This is the moment a quick-thinking security guard stop a descending gate from damaging a car that had stopped underneath it.

The incident happened at the entrance to a gated community in Yichang which is a prefecture-level city located in western Hubei province in China.

The footage shows the security guard talking to a man transporting wood on the other side of the road as a car pulls up the barrier, and then drives out.

Security guard rushes to lift the gate that was about to hit the car in Yichang, China, on 27th February 2022. (1291164905/AsiaWire)

But it is unable to pull out onto the main road because a car is coming the other way.

That however does not stop the security barrier from coming down automatically which is seen by the guard, who instantly leapt into action and runs across the road, grabbing the gate at the last minute before it strikes the car.

The unwitting driver then pulls out of the road and disappears leaving the security guard to release the gate, which then lowered all the way back down again and once again blocked the road.

Security guard rushes to lift the gate that was about to hit the car in Yichang, China, on 27th February 2022. (1291164905/AsiaWire)

The name of the security guard was not revealed and is believed the driver did not even realise the risk of damage to their car that was narrowly averted.