AN AMAZON delivery lorry has left a trail of destruction on residential streets after mounting pavements, cracking flagstones and destroying several bollards.
The truck was filmed causing chaos yesterday morning in Ealing, West London.
Filmed from a stunned onlooker above, the HGV’s destructive driving unfolded as it tried to navigate the narrow streets with the person at the wheel either unaware or unbothered by the destruction they left.
Video shows the lorry approaching a junction and commencing its turn around a corner as the person filming zooms in.
Indicating left, the driver misjudges the angle and immediately mounts the pavement with the rear of the vehicle, taking out a temporary road sign in the process.
With the HGV’s back wheels then smashing directly into two bollards, it pulled them free of their fixtures and cracked the surrounding pavement as it did.
Shockingly the driver appears to either not care or notice, driving on as if nothing happened.
The truck left the bollards on the junction corner in a sorry state, laid flat on the pavement with the surrounding paving slabs cracked and ripped from the ground.
The person filming pans the camera to another corner where the truck had already run rampant, seemingly pulling a further bollard and road sign from the ground.
The driver of the Amazon HGV drives off out of sight leaving a total of three bollards and two road signs destroyed.
The footage was shared to social media yesterday with the caption: “This was witnessed this morning by one of our members.
“We assume remedial actions are being taken. The driver must not have realised how unsuitable this road in Acton is for such a long vehicle.”
It has since received over 800 likes and more than 115 comments from stunned social media users.
One user wrote: “I’d put money on the majority of delivery drivers not having driving licenses, judging by their driving and state of the vans.”
Another added: “Has anyone ever thought of putting height, width and weight limits on vehicles in Ealing?”
A third replied: “The illegally parked black van on the other side of road was probably preventing him from doing a normal turn.”
Another commented: “It seems as if the driver had no idea it was even happening.”
A fifth said: “Feeling several big bumps and continuing to drive.”
Speaking today an Amazon spokesperson said: “We’re investigating with our carrier partner and we’ve contacted the local authority to make this right.”
