CCTV footage has emerged from China of an overloaded truck falling into a sinkhole that suddenly appeared in the middle of the road.

The video, partly filmed on security cameras in Zhangzhou, Fujian Province last Tuesday, shows the back of the truck poking out of the hole in the collapsed road after it fell into it.

According to local news, the four-metre deep hole occurred because the weight of the truck was too much for it to take.