A Scots driver was compelled to slam on their brakes after a chair and couch fell off of a lorry on a 60mph highway.
The truck didn't seem to have secured its payload correctly because it travelled alongside Standing Stane Street, close to Kirkcaldy, earlier on Tuesday March 29.
Video footage filmed by the passenger within the automobile behind the dropside lorry reveals the precarious payload because it passes Woodbank Farm.
The lorry begins to shed furnishings, as one seat comes toppling down onto the highway.
"Oop, there is a chair gone," the passenger says within the clip.
It cartwheels a number of occasions alongside the sting of the highway, taking out a highway signal within the course of, earlier than coming to relaxation on the grass verge.
A two-person couch then takes a tumble from the again of the truck, forcing the driving force of the automobile behind to step on the brakes.
The lorry seems to brake on the finish of the video, suggesting it was within the strategy of stopping to retrieve the fallen furnishings.
However the clip has sparked a debate on social media about securing unfastened items when on the transfer.
One particular person stated: "Why wasn't it secured higher?"
One other wrote: "What have been they doing having one thing that top piled up and never tied down? Wth [what the hell] is flawed with folks? Critical accident ready to occur."
A 3rd added: "Wow, that might have been actually critical. Simply as properly the driving force was retaining his distance."
The incident is the second in a variety of days the place a car has shed a few of its payload within the path of different motorists.
Police have been referred to as to a different incident on the A90 at Stonehaven after a lorry dropped brick and rocks on the carriageway on the weekend.
The Driver and Automobile Requirements Company says it recorded over 22,000 incidents of objects falling from automobiles in England in a single yr, usually resulting in the closure of lanes or total carriageways.
Drivers who fail to correctly safe payloads can see their automobiles clamped or impounded, and may even discover themselves with three penalty factors and a vast wonderful.
Police Scotland stated it had not been made conscious of the incident.
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