Dramatic footage has emerged from China showing thousands of chicks escaping from a crashed lorry onto a motorway.

The video, filmed in Yangzhou, Jiangsu Province on Monday, shows chicks escaping from the lorry after it collided with another vehicle.

According to local reports, the lorry driver was rescued from his cab without injury.

Unfortunately however, although many of the chicks were caught and brought back safely, not all of them were saved.

Dramatic footage, from China, of 30 thousands of chicks running away on motorway.

The video, filmed in Yangzhou, Jiangsu Province on Monday, shows large numbers of chickens are jumping out of a lorry damaged badly.

According to local reports, the lorry transporting 30 thousands of chickens crashed a delivery car in front of it and then the lorry driver was trapped in driving cab.

Because of the collision, several paper boxes with chickens inside were broken. Thus, lots of chickens ran away.

Rescuers saved lorry driver and sent him to hospital first, then they started to catch the runaway chickens. Except those dead and some runaway chickens, most of them were caught back.