Stationary taxi causes truck to overturn
Early morning traffic came to a standstill after a four ton water truck overturned on Paardekraal Drive.
Just when motorists thought that rush hour morning traffic was slowing down, an overturned truck on Paardekraal Drive caused many delays.
A four ton water truck overturned on Paardekraal Drive near Key West Shopping Centre after it crashed into a taxi and allegedly lost control just before 7am this morning, 15 December.
A fleet of police vehicles, Mogale City’s Traffic Department, Netcare 911 paramedics and members of Sector 4’s Community Policing Forum rushed to the scene to help assist and get traffic flowing again.
It is believed the truck was travelling along Voortrekker Road towards the Paardekraal Drive intersection. While turning into the left hand-side slipway, the truck scraped the taxi which was stationed in the left hand-side lane causing the truck to overturn and come to a standstill on the island of the road a few metres away.
The taxi’s back window was shattered from the impact but fortunately no-one in the taxi was injured.
A whole section of the road was closed off by police while the CPF directed traffic around the accident scene.
Paramedics treated the driver of the truck who was later transported to a nearby hospital to receive further medical treatment.
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