Have a seat! Moment SOFA falls off the back of a truck and spins into traffic on busy M60 motorway ‘before hitting an HGV’
- The sofa falls off truck near Whitefield Interchange on the M60 in Manchester
- Furniture item then spins across the lanes of the motorway on its castors
- Motorists are forced to swerve out of the way as the sofa slides across the lanes
This is the shocking moment motorway drivers had to avoid a sofa on the carriageway after it fell off the back of a pickup truck.
Dashcam footage captured near the Whitefield Interchange on the M60 in Manchester shows the couch fly off the truck as the vehicle hurtles down the motorway at around 12.30pm on April 23.
The sofa, which is on castors, then spins into the traffic on the busy four-lane road before it collided with an HGV, according to the driver filming.
The sofa is flung off the back of the truck as it drives along the M60 in Manchester at around 12.30pm on April 23
The footage shows it sliding across lanes as other road users try to avoid colliding with it.
Social media user Danny Dashcam, who filmed the footage, said the sofa ended up hitting a HGV vehicle.
He said: ‘A pickup carrying various household items had a sofa flip off the rear of the pickup and land on the motorway.
‘It landed on its castors and ended up spinning down the motorway and hitting a HGV.
‘The HGV chased down the pickup and flagged it onto the hard shoulder despite other vehicles telling the pickup to stop.
‘As always please keep safe on the roads.’
MailOnline has contacted Greater Manchester Police for comment.
The sofa falls off the rear of the truck and then begins to slide across the lanes on its castors
Motorists are forces to swerve out of the way as the sofa sits on the busy motorway
The incident came just a day before part of the M60 in north Manchester was forced to close after a pedestrian was hit by a lorry.
The collision happened between junction 17 for Whitefield and junction 18 for Simister Island.