Meet the real-life Clark Kent: Man displays superhuman strength to stop moving van

Meet the real-life Clark Kent who managed to bring a moving van to a halt by just using his strength.

Scott Lodge had just finished working at a customer's house in Basildon, Essex, on January 23 and was putting tools away whilst on his van's roof.

The vehicle's handbrake was not pulled up seeing it roll towards the customer's fencing.

This is when Lodge sprung into action, jumped off the roof in front of the vehicle, and began pushing the van back.

The tradesman told Newsflare about his heroic act: "I was on the roof about to pull the ladder up whilst Harry was getting the ladder clamps from the back of the van, moving about on the roof was obviously enough to start the van rolling, as it started moving I immediately started to shout 'HANDBRAKE, HANDBRAKE, HANDBRAKE!'.

"Quickly realising that Harry did not hear me or just didnt know what was going on, I looked up to see the van was picking up speed heading towards what I knew was a rotten fence with a steep drop into a stream on the other side.

"Instinct just took over and the rest is what you see, I ran across the roof bars, slid down the windscreen and jumped off of the bonnet, I turned around and put everything I had into stopping the van.

"The van halted and I then took a few seconds to take in what just happened, then, appearing through the side door, Harry calmly walks out and asks, 'what on earth just happened?'.

"Human error had meant the handbrake was left off but somehow the van had stayed put for just over three hours."

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