This is the moment a massive wheel comes off a lorry and slams into a fleeing woman sending her flying as she desperately tries to dodge it.

The footage begins by showing a group of people walking from the parked car towards a shop, with a lorry seen approaching down the road in the background.

One of its wheels can be seen coming off and at first, no one notices.

But as the massive tyre hurtles across the dirt car park, the group of people spot the danger and rush to get out of its way.

The wheel can be seen hitting a parked motorbike, knocking it over, before it hits the pavement’s concrete corner, sending it in a different direction which happened to be precisely the one the woman, who has been named as 43-year-old Ana Claudia Menezes, was fleeing in.

It hits her right in the back, smashing her into a parked motorbike and rolling over her as she tumbles to the ground.

Menezes can be seen lying on the ground not moving as the footage ends.

The incident took place on the BR-163 highway at the Santarem bus station, in western Para, in northern Brazil, on Saturday, 26th November, at around 3:40pm.

An ambulance belonging to the Mobile Emergency Care Service (Samu) was reportedly passing by and stopped to help Menezes, according to local media.

She was taken to hospital and is currently receiving treatment. Her condition has been described as delicate.