This is the tense moment a truck passed under a bridge by a hair's breadth.

Footage shows the lorry, with an apparently brave driver, moving beneath the structure smoothly with only an inch margin in Samut Prakan province, Thailand on March 23.

The vehicle encountered a bumpy sloped road before travelling a second low-level bridge. But like the first time, the truck went through without problems.

A bewildered motorist behind, Natee Chalichart, said he could not believe that the man would risk being stuck.

He said: ‘His fighting spirit is foolish but commendable. I only hope he doesn't try his luck too often.'

Thailand 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 hamper the efforts.