Moment a COW is spotted sitting on passenger's lap as car drives along Chinese motorway

This is the bizarre moment a cow was spotted squashed onto the back seat of a car driving down a Chinese motorway. 

Footage filmed by another motorist shows the farm animal sprawled across the lap of a woman in the vehicle in Yinchuan, northern China. 

The video, widely shared on social media in China this week, was reportedly filmed on March 8.

It shows the young cow looking out of the window behind the driver of a silver car which is travelling in the outside lane of the motorway.

The animal appears to be sitting on the lap of a woman in one of the rear seats, before it starts to struggle and move around the cramped vehicle. 

The woman, who is wearing a red headscarf, has her back pressed against the door while struggling with the size and weight of the stocky animal. 

Local media reported that the bizarre situation arose after a dairy farmer bought the calf from another farm. 

Because the other farmer did not have a truck to deliver it, he decided to take the animal home in his family car.   

Strangely, it is not the first time a cow has been spotted in the back seat of a vehicle.

Last August a woman filmed a calf being driven through a McDonald's drive-thru in Marshfield, Wisconsin, when its owner went to get a meal.