FAMILY IN LUCKY ESCAPE AS TRUCK CRASHES INTO HOUSE

MANZINI – Four family members were left with minor injuries, however, they suffered severe trauma after a runaway horse and trailer truck reduced their six-room house to four rooms.

The accident took place at Ngculwini, along the accident-prone Hhelehhele-Siphofaneni Public Road at around 3:55pm on Monday.
The survivors included a 58-year-old woman, her 40-year-old daughter and two grandchildren; a boy and a girl aged two months and four years old respectively.

Business

According to an eyewitness, the truck driver parked it by the road and alighted to attend to some business nearby.
It was gathered that a few minutes later, a motorist, who was driving a Toyota Hilux LDV, which operates as for hire, parked in front of the horse and trailer sugar cane truck and loaded logs.

“While fastening the logs in the van, he saw the ‘driver-less’ truck moving towards his car and he jumped off the vehicle,” the source said.
He said the runaway truck knocked the vehicle off its way and it continued down a steep hill to the home which is situated about 200 metres from the public road.

He said it crashed through the side of the six-room house and smashed a Toyota Vitz sedan which was parked next to the house.
The 58-year-old woman who identified herself at Make Gwebu, said she was inside the house with her daughter and the two grandchildren when the truck crashed into her house.

She said the truck brought down two rooms; a kitchen and dining room and destroyed everything inside it, including food and furniture.
“Part of the wall fell on me while I was playing with one of my grandchildren and I am told that I was assisted by those who were first to arrive at the scene as I was trapped,” she said.

Even though Make Gwebu said she could not remember very well what happened after the accident as she was unconscious, they were rushed to hospital by an Emergency Medical Services (EMS) ambulance.
Gwebu, who was found with her grandchildren who were continuously crying at her home yesterday, said they had been crying since the day of the accident.

Traumatised

She suspected that they were still traumatised by the presence of the truck which was still stuck at the accident scene, as its owner had not towed it away by yesterday morning.
On another note, Gwebu said her family was surviving through handouts they were getting from their neighbours, as all their food was destroyed during the accident.

Meanwhile, the owner of the truck, who did not identify himself, said he had hired a tow truck to tow the truck but the family allegedly stopped it. Chief Police Information and Communications Officer Superintendent Phindile Vilakati confirmed the accident.

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