Chinese truck driver's dramatic escape

A Chinese truck driver cheated certain death after his vehicle somehow span out on the major road, clipped the concrete wall, and turned over the edge.

Thanks to a single punctured tyre and some torn sheet metal near the diesel tank, the truck somehow managed to cling on to the concrete barrier, albeit upside down.

Rescuers moved in to pluck the driver to safety, never being entirely sure when the metal or tyres would finally give up their life saving properties and let the truck plunge 200 feet into the gorge below in rural China.

The rescuers risked their own lives, as the truck could have given way at any moment. "If the lorry had fallen, they'd have plummeted too," an onlooker said.