WHEN Tayla Lezar left home to do some shopping on Saturday night, she didn’t realise that her trip back home would turn into what she calls a “hit-and-run incident”, leaving her frightened for her life.
Lezar, a 23-year-old woman from Durban North, was parked at the intersection at Old Mill Way as the traffic light had turned red.
When the light turned green for her to proceed, a vehicle coming from the opposite direction, dodged the read traffic light and crashed into her car, causing it to spin out of control.
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“Somehow the car stopped spinning but landed on the oncoming lane. I pulled over into the correct lane and drove after the car which had hit me. The driver didn’t even bother to stop,” said Lezar.
She eventually got the driver to pull over and ‘sort of’ parked him in.
To her surprise, a group of ‘about five or six men’ alighted from the vehicle and surrounded her.
“I asked the driver why he didn’t stop after he hit into me and his answer was that he the traffic light was green for him to go. I know that was not the case,” she said.
Lezar started to panic and burst into tears while questioning the men, who in turn laughed at her and asked her why she was crying.
“They laughed at me and stood there for about five minutes while I screamed and shouted for help. There were several vehicles that went pass at the time. Everyone could see I was distressed but nobody stopped. I was so upset that nobody stopped to help,” she said.
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After several minutes of calling out for help, two men from a nearby house responded to her cries.
“They told the group of men to leave me alone. After a few minutes the men (group) got into their vehicle and drove off.”
Lezar, who wasn’t injured in the accident apart from whiplash, then reached for her phone to notify her parents what had happened, but she could not speak. One of the Good Samaritans explained to her father what had transpired and security officials were notified.
“I am so thankful for the two men who came to my rescue. I am a bit shaken up and still traumatised, but if it were not for them, the situation could have been much worse,” said Lezar.
Captain Raymond Deokaran, spokesman for the Durban North station, confirmed that an accident report has been opened.
“An accident report has been registered for this incident,” he said.
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