Online Reporter
Arron Nyamayaro
AMID the carnage, in which 17 people were killed in a horror road accident near the Hunyani Bridge along Seke Road yesterday, emerged a miraculous story of a woman who escaped from the trapped kombi with back injuries.
Two other people, who were in the kombi, also survived the crash.
A man and his wife, who were walking along the island which separates the dual carriageway, were the first to be killed when they were hit by the haulage truck after its driver lost control and encroached into the oncoming traffic lane.
The truck then crashed head-on with a Nissan Caravan kombi, which was headed towards Chitungwiza and was on the final stages of its journey from the Harare CBD, and 15 people who were in the kombi, including the driver, died on the spot. The truck dragged the kombi off the road and when it overturned it landed on top of the kombi and trapped all the people in the kombi under its weight. Vanessa Nyandoro, 24, was one of the 15 passengers who were in the kombi. Somehow, she survived the horror crash. “I do not know how I escaped, I thank God for this life,” she told H-Metro.
Fifteen people who were in the kombi, including the driver, died on the spot.
Three people who were in the kombi survived the accident. The driver of the haulage truck, Desire Madariko, 56, sustained neck injuries and was rushed to hospital. A passenger, who was in the haulage truck, also survived the accident. The accident caused one of the biggest traffic jams along Seke Road since it was turned into a dual carriageway.
