Scaffolding collapses launching workers 25ft on to road inches away from traffic
Two workmen were thrown into the path of oncoming traffic on a busy street - as the scaffolding they were using collapsed.
Dashcam footage caught the moment the scaffolding came away from the building and the two men rolled on to the road, causing a passing car to swerve to avoid hitting them. Motorist Thomas Ambrose was driving through Buckingham town centre last week when he noticed one-storey scaffolding tipping away from building.
The clip shows two men, who were climbing a ladder on top of the structure, being "catapulted" through the air and into the road. The car in front of 21-year-old Thomas manages to swerve and avoids hitting the pair by mere inches as they're slammed against the ground.
The workers wearing hi-vis jackets surprisingly bounce to their knees before Thomas says they hobbled into a side street and nearby pedestrians cleared the road. Delivery driver Thomas says he was scared when he saw the scaffolding crumble so close to his car but he's relieved the men appear to have escaped serious injury.
The scaffolding came down in the road (Kennedy News and Media)He reviewed the footage as soon as he got home and showed his pals so they'd believe the bizarre accident he'd just witnessed. Thomas, from Buckingham said: "The guy on the ladder caught my eye because he kind of got catapulted. It would have been a lot worse if he didn't bail out halfway through because he missed landing on the car or getting run over.
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"He's lucky he's not been seriously injured. I assume they got up quickly because of the adrenaline but they did seem to be okay. My first thought was to brake and try to avoid the people on it. It was quite scary but I was relieved when I hadn't hit anyone and I saw them get up okay. They must have fallen from at least 25 feet.
"I'm surprised they didn't hurt themselves more. When I was driving away I couldn't believe what I'd just seen. It's the last thing I expected to see. I was relieved when I remembered I had the dashcam." Thomas says he posted the video to Facebook so he could find the driver of the car in front, which got hit by the ladder, so they could use it for insurance purposes. He says he doesn't know who the workers were or who they worked for.
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