VIDEO: Suicide bid or domestic dispute on N2 at Amanzimtoti?
The man is then seen backing towards her, and while initially indistinct, one soon notices a child laying on the hot tar next to the woman.
A motorist with a dashboard camera in his vehicle captured a disturbing scene as he approached the Doonside off-ramp on the N2 at Amanzimtoti this morning.
At about 10.15am, the motorist who asked to be identified only as Warren, said he was forced to slow done and stop when a man on foot in the middle of his lane waved his arms in warning. About 10-metres ahead of the man, a woman had kneeled down in the middle of the slow lane.
The man is then seen backing towards her, and while initially indistinct, one soon notices a child laying on the hot tar next to the woman. She appears to pick up the child and wrench it away from the man’s grasp as he tries to marshall her to the shoulder of the road.
“I was travelling south along the N2, and just before the Doonside off-ramp I saw a man rush into the road, waving his arms trying to stop the oncoming traffic,” said the motorist.
“I stopped completely, turned on my hazards and blocked the lane. When the man, woman and child were out of the road, I pulled over to the side and then called the CCPO, who contacted Amanzimtoti SAPS. The police arrived within 12 minutes. I left my details with them in case they wanted to call me for a report.”
Fortunately Warren had a dashcam on his vehicle, on which the incident was recorded. Warren left the scene shortly afterwards and didn’t engage directly with the man or woman. Before he left, the police allegedly told him that the fracas was related to a domestic dispute.
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“All I got from the cops was that the mother wanted to end her life and didn’t want the father of her child, the man, to have the child,” said Warren. Attempts to elicit confirmation from Amanzimtoti police were unsuccessful as the station spokesman was on leave.
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