Police stop driver with items piled on top of car in Cambodia

Police pulled over a sedan car a massive bundle of cargo stacked onto the roof on a road in Poipet, Cambodia, on August 18.

The scrap metal was sitting on top the vehicle, held together precariously with tangles of rope. It was almost four times as high as the grey Toyota.

Officers warned the driver to remove the items when he reached home and to avoid piling objects onto his car on future journeys.

He was told to drive carefully before being allowed to continue on his way.

Cambodia is one of the most undeveloped countries in Southeast Asia, having never fully recovered from the atrocities committed by the Khmer Rouge in the 1970s, which saw up to a third of the population killed in a mass Communist genocide.

Road safety and infrastructure remains primitive.