This is the dramatic moment an alleged hit-and-run victim clung onto an escaping truck to catch the driver.

Helmet camera footage shows the motorist in a red shirt holding onto the window of the pickup truck as it raced across a street in Phuket, Thailand, on January 12.

The man was sent tumbling on the pavement as the truck driver then sped through a junction.

Brave motorists who witnessed the incident chased after the pickup but were unable to stop it when it roared off into the distance.

Authorities are now searching for the truck driver.

A motorcycle rider who tried to pursue the truck said: 'I was driving out of an alley when I saw a motorcycle collapsed in the middle of the road. The driver was running and calling for the pickup truck to stop. The moment it slowed down, he clung onto the door.'

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 along with notoriously easy driving tests, police failures to enforce road laws, and chronic under-investment in infrastructure, all appear to hamper the efforts.