Amazing: French couple escapes after a deadly "car split-in-half crash"

Police were left astonished after the French couple, both 20, walked away from the mangled wreckage after the head-on collision on Monday.

In the wake of the accident, which occurred near the small village of Gollion, in the south-west of Switzerland, all that was left of the family's mangled saloon were the seats and the airbags after the car's roof was ripped off.

The pair, who have not been named, were taken to hospital in Lausanne, where their injuries were listed as not life threatening.

The impact of the crash left officers saying the pair must have had a "guardian angel" looking over them.

The unnamed lorry driver, from Lausanne, was taken to hospital suffering from shock.

Police said the accident occured after the car drove straight into the lorry as it attempted to overtake another vehicle just before 7am on Monday.

The car then caught under the truck for more than 50 yards, with the impact sending the doors and the boot lid flying off.

"They must have had a guardian angel," a Swiss police spokesman said.

"A head-on crash with a lorry is not something many people walk away from."

"In fact the lorry driver came off worse. He's still in hospital with shock."

Police later launched a man hunt for the driver of the overtaken vehicle after they fled the scene, french media reported.


/Telegraph.co.uk/