Video: Overloaded scaffold truck tips up in China

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An overloaded scaffolding wagon loses balance and tips backwards in a video from China.

According to the telegraph website the footage was captured in Chongqing in February. The footage shows the driver of the truck, which is loaded with scaffolding materials, stuck in his cab three metres up the air.

No injures were reported.

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