GEORGE TOWN: A 34-year-old lorry driver escaped with minor injuries after his grocery-laden five-tonne vehicle skidded and overturned along Jalan Paya Terubong this afternoon.

Penang Fire and Rescue Department operations division assistant director John Sagun Francis said the department received an emergency call at 1.53pm.

He said a team of nine personnel from the Paya Terubong fire station was deployed to the scene near Green Garden Apartments.

"The accident involved a single five-tonne Euro bonded lorry carrying groceries that had skidded and flipped onto its side.