By . Daily Mail Reporter . A bicyclist in Brazil was hit by a passing truck on Monday, but was spared a potentially deadly injury when, unimaginably, a poorly secured mattress fell from the truck that hit him, beat the man to the ground and somehow cushioned his fall. In a twist, the incident just happened to take place right in front of a driving school. Security cameras in front of the driving school in Foz do Iguacu, in western Parana, Brazil, captured the entire incident. SCROLL DOWN FOR VIDEO . Luck: Luckily for the bicyclist, it was a mattress falling from a truck that caused his crash . This still shows the moment the bicyclist hit the speeding mattress, causing him to lose control of his bike . When he finally came to a stop, the bicyclist was safely on top of the mattress . Footage of the near-death experience has since gone viral, tallying more than one million views on Youtube. According to the Brazilian website G1, the incident happened Monday afternoon on one of the busiest streets in the city. The website reports that the unnamed bicyclist was uninjured in the bizarre collision. After the man gets up, he looks around for his bike and realizes it's underneath the mattress that broke his fall . Lucky to be alive: After the wreck, the man finds his bike under the mattress and rides off . 'The boy was lucky and was not hurt because the mattress hit the bicycle . wheel and he fell sitting . But the accident could have been very . serious,' an official said. 'They [officials] heard a noise and found the boy 's bicycle who was . carrying the mattress and fell,' the owner of the driving school , . Valdecir Trotz, said. 'Once the rider explained what had happened and saw . the pictures is what we understand. It was a shock.'
The incident happened on Monday afternoon in Brazil .
Video shows the mattress come loose from the truck as the bicyclist is hit .
Miraculously, the mattress landed on the ground first and the bicyclist landed directly on top of it .
The bicyclist was uninjured .
The incident was captured on surveillance footage from a driving school across the street .
By . Daily Mail Reporter . A bicyclist in Brazil was hit by a passing truck on Monday, but was spared a potentially deadly injury when, unimaginably, a poorly secured mattress fell from the truck that hit him, beat the man to the ground and somehow cushioned his fall. In a twist, the incident just happened to take place right in front of a driving school. Security cameras in front of the driving school in Foz do Iguacu, in western Parana, Brazil, captured the entire incident. SCROLL DOWN FOR VIDEO . Luck: Luckily for the bicyclist, it was a mattress falling from a truck that caused his crash . This still shows the moment the bicyclist hit the speeding mattress, causing him to lose control of his bike . When he finally came to a stop, the bicyclist was safely on top of the mattress . Footage of the near-death experience has since gone viral, tallying more than one million views on Youtube. According to the Brazilian website G1, the incident happened Monday afternoon on one of the busiest streets in the city. The website reports that the unnamed bicyclist was uninjured in the bizarre collision. After the man gets up, he looks around for his bike and realizes it's underneath the mattress that broke his fall . Lucky to be alive: After the wreck, the man finds his bike under the mattress and rides off . 'The boy was lucky and was not hurt because the mattress hit the bicycle . wheel and he fell sitting . But the accident could have been very . serious,' an official said. 'They [officials] heard a noise and found the boy 's bicycle who was . carrying the mattress and fell,' the owner of the driving school , . Valdecir Trotz, said. 'Once the rider explained what had happened and saw . the pictures is what we understand. It was a shock.'
right in front of a driving school. Security Iguacu, in western Parana, Brazil, captured the falling from a truck that caused his crash . This still shows the moment the bicyclist hit the bicyclist was safely on top of the mattress . G1, the incident happened Monday afternoon on one reports that the unnamed bicyclist was uninjured