Police have charged a motorist with dangerous driving after a dramatic crash in Dundee.
The accident involving a white Mercedes-Benz van and Nissan Micra occurred shortly before 1pm on Monday on Harrison Road at its junction with Rosemount Road near the entrance to Camperdown Industrial Estate.
Glasgow-man Justin Simpson was lucky to escape serious injury. He was driving the van for the nationwide delivery firm DPD when it careered into a lamppost and then flipped on to its side.
He was taken by ambulance to Ninewells Hospital for treatment to a cut on his forearm and a grazed ankle.
The mint green Nissan, marked with L-plates, suffered major damage to the front of the vehicle resulting in its airbags inflating.
It is understood its driver and passenger escaped without injury. It is not clear if the vehicles collided with one another during the crash.
It is also not known who has been charged with dangerous driving.
Emergency crews were called to the scene where they found bits of glass and vehicle wreckage strewn across the normally busy thoroughfare.
Police closed off a section of road between the junction and George Buckman Drive for about an hour as crash investigators moved in.
A spokesman for DPD said: ”He (Mr Simpson) is OK and thankfully no one else was badly hurt. We will debrief Justin in time, however, he is a bit shaken up at the moment.”
Local residents say they heard a series of loud bangs alerting them to the accident.
One man went out into his front garden to find out what had happened and saw the van driver clamber out of the passenger-side window. Before coming to a rest the van also destroyed a street cabinet which it is understood had been used by Virgin Media to provide broadband and television services to local houses.
No one from Virgin Media was available to comment.