WATCH: Wind blows lorry on top of police car on A1

A police officer called in to request the closure of a busy road in Scotland after a lorry toppled over on to his patrol car during high winds.

The static police vehicle was "carrying out scene protection" after another lorry had toppled over between the two carriageways of the A1 between Haddington and Dunbar at around 10.15am on Tuesday.

Footage of the incident was posted on Twitter by Chief Superintendent Stewart Carle, head of the road policing unit, who said he was "relieved that one of my road patrol sergeants was not seriously injured."

He said the officer, who he named as Sergeant Easton, "was as cool as a cucumber" during the incident involving his BMW.

Mr Carle said that during the call, the sergeant inside the car said: "We need to close the A1 now: a lorry has just toppled on to my patrol car. And I just polished it yesterday!"

A Police Scotland spokeswoman confirmed no-one was seriously injured in the incident, which closed the road until around 10pm.

Mr Carle added: "I nearly spilt my mug of tea but was quickly reassured when told the BMW was a '64 plate!"

Sergeant John Easton from Police Scotland’s Road Policing Unit said: "When I got to the scene, I jumped out the car, went across to check on the driver from the first lorry to make sure that he was ok, and he was already in another vehicle with one of our support drivers, so I said to them they needed to get off the bridge as it was too dangerous.

"As I struggled trying to get back to my car I had to hold onto the lorry to try and pull myself around. I had to get back into my car to then contact our control room and Traffic Scotland to close the bridge and the road.

"That’s at which point as I was speaking on the radio that the lorry started to fall over onto my car. As it happens, my favourite car in the RPU fleet.

"I took a deep breath, got out, and checked that the driver of the lorry that had hit my vehicle was ok before radioing for more assistance.

"Colleagues quickly arrived to help at the scene and we closed the road at the bridge.

"It could have been much worse but fortunately I walked away unscathed. I certainly won’t forget why it’s called the ‘Windy Bridge’ now."

It was the second incident recorded of lorries toppling over on the road due to severe weather on Tuesday.

Two other HGVs were travelling along the A1 and toppled over between Innerwick and Skateraw in East Lothian at around 7.45am, leaving the road blocked in both directions.

Again there were no reports of any injuries.