Times Of Swaziland: TRUCK FERRYING DOG FOOD OVERTURNS AT MALAGWANE

TRUCK FERRYING DOG FOOD OVERTURNS AT MALAGWANE
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 BY LINDELWA MALINGA on 13/09/2017 04:06:00


MBABANE – The smell of dog food filled the air on Malagwane Hill yesterday
after an Agos front line truck overturned.
There was a traffic jam for over five hours as traffic police had to redirect
traffic going towards Manzini to the lane going up to Mbabane.
The traffic was from Swazi Inn down to Bahai, where the police made an
alternative route to avoid a heavy traffic jam as the truck had blocked the
road.
The truck from national heavy haulage, which was ferrying 10kg  bags of
LEK-A-LIK dog food is suspected to have developed a mechanical faults before
overtutning.
The driver, Cecil Ramasenya, was trapped in the truck for over 20 minutes as the
public and the police tried to rescue him. According to a passenger on board the
truck, Siyabonga Sithole who escaped with minor injuries, they were on their way
to Malkerns when the accident occurred. Sithole narrated that the driver was
trapped by the steering wheel as the truck landed on the driver’s side on the
guardrails separating the highway.
“I met him at the border gate this morning and he was from Delmas in South
Africa with the consignment. He did not say anything before the accident and I
did not see anything when the accident happened. The paramedics who took him to
hospital told me he would recover from the injuries. The owner of the load and
the truck has been called to inform him of the accident,” Sithole said.
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