VIDEO: Baby escapes horror crash as car slides across M5

In a scene straight out of a Hollywood movie, the four-month-old tot was in a baby seat when the car flipped over, leaving a trail of sparks as it missed the lorry before hitting another car.

The terrifying crash was caught on the dashboard camera of the lorry it missed - but as the driver witnessed the M5 carnage.

The shocked driver pulled over to find the baby had survived with his parents upside down in the front seats.

The dashcam drama was released by haulage firm Owens Group, based in Llanelli, South Wales, today.

The Owens haulage lorry can be seen driving along in the inside lane when a white Volvo saloon suddenly slides into shot on its roof.

It is just inches from the camera as sparks fly across the road with the car skidding on its roof towards the hard shoulder.

But it then hits a blue hatchback car which then smashes head-on into the central reservation in a 360-degree turn.

It comes to rest upside down on the motorway's grass verge - with the baby unhurt.

The company has now released the footage, filmed on the M5 in 2014, to illustrate the benefits of having a forward-facing dashboard camera attached to each of its vehicles.

Mike Colborne, 48, health and safety manager at Owens Group, said the white car's driver had his wife and four-month old baby in the car.

He said: "Our driver helped as best he could and phoned the police. Everybody was able to get out.

"We now have the forward-facing cameras in all our vehicles. We were trialling it at the time and that was enough for us.

"It is totally down to protecting the driver and the company."

He said the lorry involved happened to be the only one fitted with a camera at the time as the company took part in a trial.

The footage proved the lorry driver was not to blame in any way for the accident - clearing the company of any responsibility from an insurance point of view.