A driver of a Hitachi excavator had a miraculous escape when he was trying to bring down a water tank. <br /><br />The water tank fell keeled over and fell on the excavator missing the driver by inches. <br /><br />The dramatic incident occurred at a village in Vijayapura district in South India. <br /><br />A crowd had gathered to watch officials bring down the water tank, which had been replaced by a new structure. <br /><br />As the tank came down on the excavator, the crowd shouted in shock saying, “He’s gone.”<br /><br />But they also showed relief when they saw the driver getting out of his cabin without a scratch. <br /><br />Many blamed the officials for planning the demolition unscientifically.<br /><br />A local resident, Akshay Horatti, said: “The plan was to remover the plaster on the pillars with the excavator and then pull down the tank. But the structure was weaker than they thought.''
