A TEENAGE driver escaped injury after a trailer he was towing overturned at a busy Chorley roundabout -- after just hours in the job!

Andrew Cliff, 18, was driving a tractor and trailer on to the Big Lamp roundabout at the busy junction of Pall Mall and Market Street just before 2pm on Tuesday.

But he suddenly felt the tractor sway as the trailer overturned, spilling its load of chopped maize on to George Street.

Onlookers gathered as attempts were made to move the trailer and its contents off the road.

And driver Andrew had only been in Chorley a few hours before the crash happened.

He had travelled 60 miles from his home in Settle, North Yorkshire, after a contractor rang him up and offered him work moving the animal feed from a Chorley farm.

Recalling what happened, he said: "I was just coming up to the roundabout, I stopped and I waited for the traffic to go round.

"It was clear, so I indicated and drove off as I normally would.

"But the next thing I know it just went, and I was not going fast."

He said he felt the vehicle sway. "It felt like I was dreaming at first but then it kind of shot through that this had happened.

"I remember thinking 'what shall I do now?'"

Susan Boulter, of Marshalls Florists, Pall Mall, said: "We did not see what happened, we just heard a crash. Luckily there was no-one else involved."

She added it was fortunate no pedestrians had been crossing the junction at the time.

At the scene, sergeant Bill Cunliffe, of Chorley Police, said: "The police will have to make a detailed investigation into the accident and we will decide what action will be taken when the investigation is complete."

"It's only the luck of the gods that a person pushing a pram or an elderly person is not lying under that trailer now." CHOPPING trip? : The trailer's spilled load of chopped maize.