A runaway lorry ploughed through vehicles before smashing into a lamppost on a snowy street.

The crash happened on Coatbridge Road in Glenmavis, North Lanarkshire, at 7.40am on Tuesday.

The driver and passenger of the lorry had stopped to help cars which were stuck at the top of the hill.

But just moments later, the two men turned round to discover the truck careering down the hill, striking a car before smashing into a van.

The lorry then hit a lamppost before colliding with a wall and coming to a stop.

Niki Blackhall feared someone could have been killed in the incident.

She said: "I got up, looked out the window and noticed cars were skidding and crashing down the hill.

"Two men got out to help move the other cars and the truck started sliding down the hill."

She added: "If it wasn't for the lamppost it would have been chaos as a lot of cars were stopped at the bottom of the hill.

"The road was closed for an hour or two.

"Someone could have been killed. It's quite scary.

"If there was a driver in the lorry then they could have got the vehicle under the control but the scariest part was that no one was in it."

A Police Scotland spokeswoman said: "No one was injured or charged following the incident."