WALL THAT WAS CLOSE: Speeding Car Hurtles Past Man And Slams Into A Building

This is the terrifying moment a speeding car smashes into a building and is obliterated just inches away from where a man is peacefully sitting under a tree.

The dramatic lucky escape happened alongside a road in Zhongshan, which is a prefecture-level city in the south of the Pearl River Delta in Guangdong province, China.

The footage starts with the man sitting peacefully on a wall and a blue motorbike is parked on the street alongside him.

Car crashes right next to a man sitting under tree in Zhongshan, China, on 19th March 2022. (1196864212/AsiaWire)

Almost immediately, a car travelling so fast that it almost cannot be followed suddenly hits the bike and then smashes into the building behind the man – where it concertinas into a wreck that then topples onto its side.

The whole incident is over so quickly that the man has almost no time to react – and he only stands up and walks away nervously when the crash is over and done with.

He also glances back, almost unable to believe his luck at having survived what would have almost certainly been fatal if the car had been another metre to the left.

Moment before car crashes right next to a man sitting under tree in Zhongshan, China, on 19th March 2022. (1196864212/AsiaWire)

Eyewitness Mr Liang told local media that he believed the driver had lost control while doing a parking manoeuvre and pressed the accelerator instead of the brake. He said the force of the collision resulted in the driver’s death, although this was not confirmed by officials.