This is the moment a jilted ex smashes up the car of his former wife’s new boyfriend by repeatedly driving his lorry into it.

CCTV cameras recorded the moment the bitter ex-husband carried out the vengeful act of vandalism on a petrol station forecourt in the town of Media Agua in the western Argentine province of San Juan.

The footage shows how the driver of the large Mercedes Benz lorry rams into the diminutive Chevrolet Corsa parked next to a petrol pump in the early hours of 24th June.

The recording shows how the collision takes two men standing on the forecourt by surprise, with one of them having to run out of harm’s way, and they try to alert the lorry driver apparently believing that he might not have realised that he had caused the crash.

The lorry driver can then be seen turning his vehicle on the forecourt and then reversing into the car, hitting it twice more, before driving away.

According to local media, the owner of the car was also standing nearby and he tried in vain to stop his jealous rival from wrecking his vehicle.

After the perpetrator drove off, his ex-wife’s new flame was only able to walk away from the scene as his car was no longer usable and remained battered and broken at the petrol station.

According to local media, the case was registered with the police. It is not known if charges have since been pressed against the jilted ex-husband or if he was arrested.

The identities of those involved have not been divulged.