Video: Lorry smashes into pedestrian overpass in Canada

Trailer loaded with canola seed was ‘unwittingly left in the raised position’

Canada lorry crash
(Image credit: Jonathan Berneche)

A lorry’s spectacular collision with an overpass was captured on camera on a Canadian motorway.

The loaded bed of the articulated lorry was “unwittingly left in the raised position” as it sped along Highway 40 near the town of Repentigny, east of Montreal, says CBC.

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