COMMUTERS escaped death after a cement mixer belonging to a WGC-based company fell off a bridge and hit a passing train.

Five people including the truck’s 35-year-old driver were injured when it ploughed through a brick wall and landed on the roof of the eight-carriage train near Oxshott in Surrey.

A spokesman for Kingman Services, a haulage firm based in Silver Court, Watchmead, remained tight-lipped about the crash and refused to confirm whether the driver was from the borough.

The driver remains in a stable condition in hospital along with a 60-year-old train passenger, the others received minor injuries.

Around 40 passengers were onboard the South West Trains service from Guildford to Waterloo when it was struck by the cement mixer.

The lorry bounced off the roof of the passing train and came to rest on the embankment at around 3.30pm on Friday.

Surrey police superintendent Graham Head said: “The investigation into the circumstances of the lorry leaving the road is ongoing.”