A CAR driver escaped injury after a lorry smashed into a metal bridge yesterday and shed its load.
The 45ft long wagon hit the underside of the pier bridge at Southport just before 4pm. A blue metal container it was carrying was knocked on to an oncoming silver Nissan Almera.
The windscreen of the 2002 registration car was smashed and the driver, thought to be in his late thirties and from Crossens, escaped uninjured but shaking.
Bob Hudson, 62, who works as a security guard at nearby shopping complex, Ocean Plaza, said: “It sounded like thunder. There was a screeching and scrapping of steel. The whole ground shook.”
Police were called at 4pm and closed off Marine Drive between the mini-roundabout at McDonald’s and the Premier Inn at Ocean Plaza. Traffic had to be diverted from one of Southport’s main roads into the town centre.
Sefton Council will inspect the bridge today.
