Luckily no-one was hurt when this runaway lorry careered downhill into a public car park and ploughed into a pay & display parking machine in the Tremworth car park, in St Ives, Cornwall.
It is understood the handbrake failed on the lorry, which was collecting rubble from excavation works on the hill.
The Metric Elite machine, which had only been installed two weeks previously, was buckled at the base and couldn’t be re-set into the ground. However, many of parts of the solar-powered machine...
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