A Scots driver was forced to slam on their brakes after a chair and sofa fell off of a lorry on a 60mph road.
The truck did not appear to have secured its payload properly as it travelled along Standing Stane Road, near Kirkcaldy, earlier on Tuesday March 29.
Video footage filmed by the passenger in the car behind the dropside lorry shows the precarious payload as it passes Woodbank Farm.
The lorry begins to shed furniture, as one seat comes toppling down onto the road.
"Oop, there's a chair gone," the passenger says in the clip.
It cartwheels several times along the edge of the road, taking out a road sign in the process, before coming to rest on the grass verge.
A two-person sofa then takes a tumble from the back of the truck, forcing the driver of the car behind to step on the brakes.
The lorry appears to brake at the end of the video, suggesting it was in the process of stopping to retrieve the fallen furniture.
But the clip has sparked a debate on social media about securing loose goods when on the move.
One person said: "Why wasn't it secured better?"
Another wrote: "What were they doing having something that high piled up and not tied down? Wth [what the hell] is wrong with people? Serious accident waiting to happen."
A third added: "Wow, that could have been really serious. Just as well the driver was keeping his distance."
The incident is the second in a number of days where a vehicle has shed some of its payload in the path of other motorists.
Police were called to another incident on the A90 at Stonehaven after a lorry dropped brick and rocks on the carriageway at the weekend.
The Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency says it recorded over 22,000 incidents of objects falling from vehicles in England in a single year, often leading to the closure of lanes or entire carriageways.
Drivers who fail to properly secure payloads can see their vehicles clamped or impounded, and can even find themselves with three penalty points and an unlimited fine.
Police Scotland said it had not been made aware of the incident.
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