Horror crash in China sees car flattened by a cement mixer as driver and passenger somehow survive with only broken bones

  • Two women survived a horror crash in China after a cement lorry tipped over and crushed their car
  • Driver escaped and called for help but passenger remained trapped underneath the cement mixer
  • Fire crews were forced to wait for a crane to lift the lorry off before they could cut the woman free 
Two women in China have survived a horror crash with only minor injuries after a cement mixer fell on their car an flattened it.
The accident happened at around 7.30am in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, eastern China, when the car hit the mixer which was coming in the other direction, causing it to tip over.
Incredibly, the driver was able to get out of the wreckage and call for help, while the passenger was trapped under the weight of the mixer. 
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Two women survived this horror crash in China with just broken bones after a cement mixer tipped over and fell on top of their car
Two women survived this horror crash in China with just broken bones after a cement mixer tipped over and fell on top of their car
The crash happened in Hangzhou, in the eastern Zhejiang province, at 7.30am after the car smashed into the lorry causing it to tip over
The crash happened in Hangzhou, in the eastern Zhejiang province, at 7.30am after the car smashed into the lorry causing it to tip over

The driver of the car managed to escape and called for help, while the passenger was left trapped after the car crumpled around her
When fire crews arrived that tried to use lifting jacks to move the cement truck, but after it proved too heavy they were forced to call for a crane.
While workers waited half an hour for the heavy-lifting equipment to arrive, they kept talking to the trapped woman, making sure she was conscious.
'We and traffic officers at scene immediately called for help, asking to call in a lifting crane and an excavator,' said fire commander Zhu Lei.