KWAZULU-NATAL. – A 34-year-old municipal employee was seriously injured on Monday after allegedly being dragged by a truck at the intersection of Todd and Ireland streets in Verulam's city centre, KZN.
According to Reaction Unit South Africa (Rusa), the woman and a colleague, both employees of Durban Solid Waste (DSW), had finished their work and were walking along the pavement towards the taxi rank when the incident occurred. The colleague said a metal crowbar that was protruding from the side of a white Isuzu truck caught on the woman's trousers and dragged her as the vehicle moved forward. The 33-year-old driver allegedly only realised what had happened when he looked in his side mirror near the traffic lights and saw the woman under the truck. He was on his way to Wick Street to deliver a fridge-freezer.
Rusa paramedics stabilised the woman at the scene for serious injuries to her right hand and left wrist before she was transported to a hospital.
This article is an automatic English translation of a Nuusflits article originally published in Afrikaans. Read the Afrikaans original.
