This is the terrifying moment a lorry was snagged on electricity cables - dragging down a post onto a food truck.

The vehicle was making a turn when it was caught in a tangle of low-hanging wires at a junction on the Siharat Dechochai road in Phitsanulok, Thailand, on August 13.

Locals said the lorry driver had been unaware that tall vehicles cannot drive through the road, which has hundreds of low-hanging cables overhead.

Dash cam footage shows how the truck immediately stopped when its trailer was clotheslined by the cables. However, the concrete posts were loosened from their foundations, causing one of them to topple onto an oncoming delivery truck.

The crash sent sparks flying across the road as frightened motorists tried to move out of the way amid fears they could be electrocuted by the damaged cables.

University lecturer Sathit Maneechot, a driver who was on his way to work when the incident happened, said: 'I heard that the driver was heading to a warehouse in the province's city centre.

'He probably followed the GPS and wasn't aware that big trucks are not allowed to drive in this intersection.'

Nobody was seriously injured in the accident and officers are still assessing the total damage caused by the crash.

Thailand is notorious for its messy black phone and electricity cables that are strung up along roadsides around the country. Politicians have promised to move them underground, but so far only a handful of streets in the capital Bangkok have been improved.

The country also has one of the world's worst road safety records. Ministers have set the goal of reducing fatalities from 32.7 deaths per 100,000 people to 12 per 100,000 people by the year 2027.

However, a lack of road safety education in schools, cheap loans for cars, notoriously easy driving tests, police failures to enforce road laws as well as endemic corruption and chronic under-investment in infrastructure may hamper the efforts.