A truck trailer narrowly missed a man after it smashed into a bridge in southern China.

The dramatic video, filmed in Yueyang city in Hunan province on July 19, shows the truck crashing into a bridge and the trailer crashing to the ground as the vehicle attempted to drive under the bridge.

A man stood beside his scooter on the roadside ran away immediately to escape the trailer flipping over towards him.

Although the scooter was flattened, the man luckily escaped.