A LARGE recovery vehicle rolled onto a busy Bournemouth pavement after its handbrake failed.
A spokesperson for Dorset Police said the force was called to the incident this evening on Old Christchurch Road, outside Beales, where the lorry had been recovering a car.
“In the process its handbrake failed,” she added.
“It rolled back onto the pavement and hit bollards and a BT junction box.”
Eyewitness Daniel Chatfield, 19, described hearing a man scream at people nearby to get out of the way as the vehicle moved towards the pavement.
He added: “There was a very loud bang. It could have been a lot worse.”
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