A driver had a miraculous escape after a HGV wheel fell off on the M6 and smashed through his car windscreen.
Police say the tyre 'detached' from the lorry, which was travelling in the opposite direction, bounced over the central reservation and crashed into the oncoming Peugeot.
Remarkably the driver was able to pull over to the hard shoulder, get out of his wrecked car and walk away with just minor injuries.
Police have described him as the 'luckiest person in the world right now'.
The incident took place on the M6 near Leyland in Lancashire today.
Lancs Road Police tweeted: "The driver of this car is the luckiest person in the world right now.
"This tyre detached from an HGV on the M6 at jct28, crossed the central barrier & struck an oncoming vehicle.
"How they got it to the shoulder and got out is beyond us.
"Thankfully minor injuries.
"This tyre detached from an HGV on the M6 at jct28, crossed the central barrier & struck an oncoming vehicle.
"How they got it to the shoulder and got out is beyond us.
"Thankfully minor injuries."
And in another incredible stroke of luck police say the driver's young son wanted to come with him on his journey, but was unable to.
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Alongside a picture of a crushed child's seat in the back of the white Peugeot 2008 SUV police wrote: "The driver's young son wanted to come out with Dad.
"Thankfully he was unable to take him, but it doesn't bear thinking about what would have happened had his son been in this car seat."
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