Out Of Control Truck Nosedives Down Bank Into Car

A routine firewood delivery in Newlands ended in disaster on Sunday evening (March 10 2002). 

The delivery truck had just finished being unloaded when it started to roll forward, continued down a 10M bank and ploughed front first into the roof of a parked car. Newlands volunteer fire service were quickly on the scene and managed to contain the leaking fuel from the two vehicles. 

The truck only had one occupant at the time, the owners dog, Bosley, who amazingly managed to avoid injury apart from being shaken up from the whole incident. The outcome could have been a lot worse as the owner of the parked car was entering her car at the time. She heard some commotion, stepped back and watched as her car was spectacularly destroyed by the out of control truck.

Once the truck was lifted back onto the road, it was still able to drive under it's own power.

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