Dramatic footage has emerged from China of a lorry carrying a tree knocking over a tricycle beside it.

In the video, filmed in Shanghai last Tuesday, the branches and leaves loaded onto the a lorry are too wide for the road so it knocks over a tricycle sending the driver into a shallow river.

According to local reports, the lorry driver didn't know he had hit the other vehicle until he stopped 5km away from the scene.

Fortunately, the tricycle driver was not seriously injured.