This is the shocking moment a lorry nearly toppled over while crossing a 100ft-high bridge when 60mph winds picked its wheels up.
The wobbly vehicle was spotted by Daniel Garner, who filmed the footage, while he was travelling across the Humber Bridge in East Yorkshire yesterday morning during rush hour traffic while Storm Lillian battered the nation.
In the harrowing video the lorry can be seen traversing the bridge, which is the longest in the UK, before it is lifted off the ground and pulled to its left-hand side by the strong winds.
It comes agonisingly close to tipping over on two occasions while appearing to lean precariously over the barriers.
Meanwhile cars travelling behind the truck are quick to brake to avoid the troubled wagon.
The wobbly vehicle was spotted by Daniel Garner, who filmed the footage, while he was travelling across the Humber Bridge in East Yorkshire yesterday morning during rush hour traffic while Storm Lillian battered the nation
In the harrowing video the lorry can be seen traversing the bridge, which is the longest in the UK, before it is lifted off the ground and pulled to its left-hand side by the strong winds.
Humber Bridge’s official Twitter account announced the bridge was closed to ‘high-sided and wind vulnerable vehicles’ at 7.34am, shortly after the video was taken, and a speed limit of 20mph was imposed.
Mr Garner shared the video to Facebook where its been viewed more than 230,000 times and shocker users branded it ‘scary’.
The tarmacer from Hull said: ‘I was worried it was going to go over the side.
‘We could tell as we were coming up the bridge how bad it was and we’d seen the wind was at 30mph but within a few minutes it was 60mph.
‘I saw the lorry tip a little bit so I got my phone out and then it nearly went over a couple of times.
‘If he’d have slowed down I would have got out and helped him but he carried on and got to the other side.
‘I posted the video to advise people not to go over because I’ve never seen anything like it.
‘I couldn’t stop watching the video.’
Daniel’s video has been shared more than 750 times.
One commented: ‘Wow that’s scary.’
It comes agonisingly close to tipping over on two occasions while appearing to lean precariously over the barriers. Meanwhile cars travelling behind the truck are quick to brake to avoid the troubled wagon
The Humber Bridge on a less windy day. The bridge’s official Twitter account announced the bridge was closed to ‘high-sided and wind vulnerable vehicles’ at 7.34am, shortly after the video was taken, and a speed limit of 20mph was imposed
Another simply wrote: ‘Wow.’
Storm Lilian caused travel chaos yesterday, with a number of train lines suspended due to toppled trees.
Damage to overhead wires stopped all trains between Liverpool and Wigan North Western as Northern Rail gave passengers a ‘do not travel today’ warning as problems were so severe.
The Met Office issued a weather warning for south east of England, where between 50mm and 70mm could have rained.
