A driver unloading vegetables from a pickup truck narrowly avoided death when a speeding truck smashed into the vehicle.

The elderly man was unloading the bags from his car with his wife when the lorry rammed the vehicle from behind in Chiang Rai, Thailand, on January 5.

Footage shows the driver gesturing to take another bag, but his vehicle was pushed forward by the out-of-control 10-wheel lorry. He leaped backwards - just inches from being struck by the vehicle.

The shocked couple and their neighbours were unhurt but the car was wrecked. No one was seriously injured, and authorities later arrived to assist with the investigation and trace the truck driver.

The resident said that police will make the lorry driver cover the cost of he damaged vehicle.