A SHOCKED director admitted she didn’t know why her firm’s lorry came to be on Grange Road before smashing into a bridge on Tuesday morning.

The bizarre incident saw the Flemings of Rosyth removal vehicle plough into the Elgin Street railway bridge in Dunfermline shortly before 9am.

Nearly 20,000 people visited the Press website on Tuesday as pictures and video footage of the accident emerged.

The lorry hit the 11ft 6” high bridge and became lodged underneath at 8.37am.

Barbara Fleming, director of Fleming’s of Rosyth, said, “Both men who were travelling in the lorry are OK and that is the main thing. Thankfully they suffered no injuries but they were both shaken by the incident.

“There was no furniture in the lorry because they were on the way to a job so therefore no property was thankfully damaged.

“We are carrying out an investigation as to why the lorry was travelling on the road – because it never should have been on that road. Everyone was a bit shaken and it was quite upsetting to hear the news this morning but nobody got hurt so that is good.” Police, fire services, recovery company McPhee and Network Rail attended the scene which was closed off to traffic for around four hours.

Watch manager Ricky Stroud at Dunfermline Fire Station said, “We were on standby during the recovery process making sure the area was safe.

“Two vehicles from McPhee Recovery removed the vehicle which took around an hour and a half.

“They firstly pulled the lorry fully on to its side and had to drag it from under the bridge.” Media relations manager for Network Rail, Nick King, said no damage was caused to the bridge.

He said, “Once the police had finished their inspections of the area and the lorry was removed from under the bridge, engineers took a look at the structure and can confirm that there are no problems with the bridge.

“There was no structural impact to the bridge.

“The line that travels over the Elgin Street bridge is a freight line therefore it is not used often.

“There were no trains to go over the bridge therefore minimal disturbance to the line was made as a result of this incident.”