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A lorry driver shunted a tiny Smart car two miles down a busy German motorway because he didn't know it was wedged to his truck.

Klaus Buergermeister only stopped, allowing the Smart car's terrified driver to escape, when he was flagged down by police.

The trucker, 53, pushed the tiny car driven by Andreas Bolga, 48, along the busy A1 after pulling onto the autobahn at Leverkusen.

He said he was surprised when a patrol car signalled for him to stop as he was not driving too fast and had only had his vehicle serviced the week before.

"I couldn't believe it when I got out of the truck and saw there was a car stuck on the front of it," he said.

He added he had felt a slight bump, but said he thought he had simply driven over a stone in the road.

Instead he had hit the Smart car and its bumper had wedged on the truck's radiator grill.

Mr Bolga said: "I was driving at just under 60mph when the truck came onto the motorway and hit me.

"I tried to drive away but couldn't. I looked up through my sun roof and could see the driver, but he didn't notice me."

Police say no action will be taken against the truck driver.