TRUCK PLOUGHS INTO WALL FENCE

The Ocean Fresh truck landed in this position after its driver failed to turn. (Pic: Bongiwe Dlamini)

MBABANE – A truck that was fresh from ferrying food parcels ploughed into the wall fence of a homestead and further crashed into a gate of another home.

Four men aboard the truck were lucky to be alive after its driver failed to make it through a turn.
The truck, branded Ocean Fresh, was said to be from Buhleni at the Buganu festival to Ludzidzini when the accident occurred. According to eyewitnesses at the scene, the truck was driving at high speed and the driver, Sabelo Mabuza (40), is suspected to have failed to negotiate the turn. According to a traffic police officer who resides at Lobamba, he thought the driver was tired as they had been delivering food parcels to Buhleni for the buganu festival. “I think he relaxed when driving up the road not aware that he’ll miss the turn,” said the cop.

The truck first hit a wall fence before hitting metal fencing poles, driving through the trees and landed on a concrete gate pole at a Gamedze homestead. One of the witnesses who saw the whole accident said the truck was driving at a high speed before it hit the wall fence. “Ifike lana seyindiza seyita netihlahla beyitikhukhula,” narrated the eyewitness.

Aboard the truck were three passengers and one of them sustained serious head injuries and fractured legs. Samkeliso Lokotfwako who is estimated to be in his 30s is said to be the most injured of the three. According to an eyewitness, Lokotfwako was on the passenger seat, on the side that the truck was officer damaged.

The traffic police who rushed to the scene when he heard the loud bang said when he got there, two of the passengers were trapped and he and other members of the public tried to save them.

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