A BOULDER weighing between 200 and 300 pounds fell off a lorry on Portland.
Police said the 'enormous lump of stone' fell on to a pavement in Chiswell yesterday morning.
It is the second such incident on the island in a week - last Friday a two-ton piece of rock fell off a lorry and damaged a parked vehicle in Easton Square.
A Dorset Police spokesman said the lorry lost the stone shortly before 10am yesterday.
She said no one was hurt and that the vehicle driver arranged for the boulder to be recovered.
Emergency engineer Rod Wallis, from Weymouth, was leaving Portland when he spotted the piece of stone.
He said: "It must have weighed between 200 and 300 pounds and it had fallen straight on to the pavement.
"It was so lucky that no-one was walking along there at that moment, because they would have been killed instantly.
"You watch these lorries coming down the roads with these huge loads and there's never any netting over the top."
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