A TOP Gear presenter had a lucky escape after crashing a Porsche in Monmouthshire.

Chris Harris was driving a black Porsche GT3 Touring on the A466 near Tintern in Monmouthshire when he crashed into a pick-up truck doing a three-point turn.

Luckily, nobody was hurt in the crash, which Mr Harris called "unavoidable" on social media.

The presenter added that "speed was not a factor".

Mr Harris, who presents the show alongside former Friends star Matt LeBlanc, was working on the 26th series of Top Gear, to be aired in 2019.

An eyewitness to the BBC the pick-up truck was manoeuvring in an apparent three-point-turn before the collision and the Porsche was embedded in the side of the truck between the front and back wheels.

Mr Harris has presented Top Gear since 2016, and was par of the team which replaced Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May.

A spokesman for BBC Top Gear said: "We can confirm that Chris Harris was involved in a car accident in Wales whilst working on a feature for Top Gear magazine.

"Chris, his passenger, and the driver of the other car, were unhurt. Police were called to the scene."