DRAMATIC footage has emerged of a lorry being blown onto two wheels while being driven on the A1 during rush hour.

As 60mph Storm Gertrude gales battered the region on Friday, North Yorkshire firefighters were called to the dual carriageway between Leeming and Catterick shortly after 8am, as motorists stopped traffic to help the driver of the stricken 7.5-ton wagon.

Film of the lorry on the northbound carriageway, shortly before its roof was blown on to the southbound carriageway, shows the vehicle teeter at more than 45 degrees and almost toppling over.

The lorry is seen careering from the inside to outside lane on the driver's side wheels and coming perilously close to crashing into central barrier.

Labourer Harrison Smith, of South Yorkshire, who filmed the incident said: "The moment we saw the way the lorry was moving about in the wind we knew it was very dangerous so we started flashing him and putting on our hazards to try to alert him.

"It got so severe I got my phone out to record it, when suddenly all the wheels on the lorry's left hand side came up off the road completely so he was doing a wheelie. It was unbelievable.

"It went so far over that it's shocking it was able to right itself."

A North Yorkshire Fire Service spokesman said crews from Bedale, Northallerton and Richmond arrived to find the vehicle's side structures had also become unstable.

He said: "Crew used strops and triple extension ladder to secure the vehicle whilst it was removed from the road."