A customer, quietly enjoying a beer at a road-side bar, was left with head injuries and liver damage after he was whacked out of his chair by a runway car wheel.

Cleyton Gomes da Silva, 39, who already had a leg injury and was using a crutch, was sitting outside a pub with a group of friends in Goiania, central west Brazil.

CCTV of the incident shows the head lights of a car, which appears in the upper left hand corner of the image, coming down the road.

The victim is seen sitting at a table apparently chatting to friends.

The vehicle was reportedly making a screeching noise with sparks flying off it as metal scrapped along tarmac.

Da Silva is seen turning to look in the direction of the sound coming from the approaching vehicle but he appears unconcerned and resumes his conversation.

Just as he does, the front wheel of the apparently out of control car shoots off with part of a broken axle attached.

Cleyton Gomes da Silva, 39, was quietly enjoying a beer at a road-side bar with his friends in Goiania, central west Brazil

An out-of-control car speeds down the road as one of its tyres comes loose and hurtles down the pavement towards the group

The speed of the car and the velocity of the wheel appears to fling the tyre sideways and it hurtles down the pavement directly towards the unassuming victim.

In a blink of an eye, the loose tyre crashes through crates of empty beer bottles and slams into da Silva, catapulting him out of his chair and totally wiping him off the pavement where he was sitting.

The high speed impact left the victim dazed and disorientated but luckily he survived.

The wheel with part of the axle spoke still attached rolls around and comes to rest near the injured man whose condition is not picked up by the cameras.

'He was breathing and conscious,' said an unnamed friend who went to his aid and called the ambulance.

His friends look on in shock at what has just happened.

One of them, who is wearing a white cap, watches the rogue tyre careering down the sidewalk but the freak accident happens so fast, he did not have time to react.

After the incident, he is seen running to his car to chase after the motorist who failed to stop at the scene, despite the fact he was only driving on three wheels.

Da Silva is catapulted out of his chair and is wiped totally off the pavement where he was sitting

The victim underwent a series of tests and examinations and was released a few days after the accident. The driver involved has since been identified but has refused to make a comment

The victim was rushed to the Accident and Emergency Centre where doctors reported he had suffered non-life threatening head injuries and a bruised liver.

The incident happened on August 1 at 10:42pm but the security camera footage was only released on August 14.

The victim underwent a series of tests and examinations and was released a few days after the accident.

The driver involved has since been identified but has refused to make a comment.

No details of the charges he may face have been released as police continue to investigate.

In a bizarre twist to the story, colleagues of da Silva said he must be the luckiest man alive.

They revealed he has been involved in five car accidents in the last two years and was recovering from a leg injury caused by one that happened last month.