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DURBAN ROAD, BELLVILLE: RUNAWAY TRUCK CRASHES INTO CARS AT DEALERSHIP, GARAGE
Truck causes mayhem NIELEN DE KLERK AND NTHABISENG MADUMO @nielendk, @msmadumo
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local car dealership is facing damages of almost one million rand after a runaway truck crashed into several cars at their premises. The accident, which took place last week Thursday, happened when a truck driver jumped out of the truck he was driving in Durban Road, Bellville. The truck subsequently crashed into two cars parked in front of the BP Garage and
five at the Hyundai Tyger Valley dealership. According to Renier Duraan, branch manager, four of the dealership’s cars were damaged along with a client’s car that was parked on their premises. He says the damage to their cars totalled around R840 000. “Fortunately the insurance will cover the damages.” He says accidents often occur in the area as drivers race down Durban Road towards the N1. “We can hear them speeding outside.” They have never experienced an accident to this extent, he adds.
According to Maxine Bezuidenhout from the City of Cape Town’s Traffic Services, the driver jumped out of the truck allegedly due to brake failure. After the accident he lay in the middle of the road about 150m before the Hyundai dealership, just before the traffic lights. He was driving a truck for a company in Brackenfell. His legs were visibly injured and he had a few other minor injuries to his body. According to a reliable source on the scene, the truck appeared to roll over the driver’s legs after he jumped out. He was soon surrounded by paramedics
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from ResQ Medix and City EMS who attended to him before he was taken away by ambulance. Another person was attended to by paramedics for minor injuries. By the time of going to print, the driver’s condition was unknown. One witness who wishes to remain anonymous says she was at her workplace when she saw the truck driving past the building into the vehicles parked outside the car dealership. Another bystander tells how she saw a truck without a driver heading straight towards her, before she jumped out of the way. V Photos on page 2.
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