A WOMAN died on the spot while a man was seriously injured
when a small sand-laden old truck ploughed into hitch-hikers in a freak
accident at Beitbridge on Thursday.
The injured man was rushed to Beitbridge Hospital, while
the body of the woman, returning from a shopping trip in South Africa, was
trapped under the truck.
Eyewitnesses said the truck just swerved off the road and
crashed into the hitch-hikers, whose groceries were also crashed by the truck
which went on to hit three other cars.
Two women, who were travelling with the deceased, escaped
after leaving her in guard of goods, while they sought food at a roadside take
away shop.
“We left her just now, we were with her and left to buy
food,” wailed one of the women, too emotional for any conversation.
A huge emotion-charged crowd, with some women crying,
gathered at the scene just a few hundred metres from Beitbridge Police Station
at the banned hiking spot where municipal police have daily running battles
with pirate taxis.
Police arrived at the scene and helped remove the body of
the woman in her 30s from under the truck. Newsday
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