Bakkie driver escapes serious injury after truck loses control, crashes
The driver of a bakkie has escaped unharmed after a truck veered off the road and hit the vehicle, on Lighthouse Road, in Umhlanga.
Paramedics says the truck driver is believed to have lost control of the heavy duty vehicle before crashing into the bakkie - on the parking lot.
Netcare 911's Shawn Herbst says the driver started hooting when the vehicle failed to come to a stop.
Both vehicles then crashed against the fencing of a nearby hotel.
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Herbst says the driver of the bakkie was visibly traumatised but otherwise unharmed. The truck driver was treated on scene.