This is the shocking moment a large tree fell onto an oncoming car in Thailand.

Footage shows the 40ft-tall hardwood collapsing towards the road and smashing on top of the pickup truck as seen from the driver's dashcam view in Phetchabun, Thailand, on February 2.

Driver Paphatchaya Thanathanyakit said the fall was caused when a resident who was pruning the tree to clear his let it crash into the road.

She said no one was hurt but the windscreen of her grey Toyota pickup truck was shattered and the bonnet was scratched.

She said: ‘I was with four others inside the car. We were fortunate that none of us were hurt.'

Paphatchaya said the clumsy resident paid her 10,000 baht (279 USD) to cover part of the repair expenses while her insurance would handle the rest.

She added: ‘I hope it would be a lesson always to be careful with our actions. Anyone cutting trees should think about where they will fall.'

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.