Hit-and-run leaves jogger injured

Natasha Grignard, a Rynfield resident, was hit by a speeding car, which left her lying metres from where she was jogging, on President Kruger Street.

“I was jogging on the side towards on coming traffic and the car hit me from behind, I think it was attempting to overtake another car,” said Grignard.

The car struck her with such an impact that its right side mirror fell off.

All she remembers is seeing the car speeding off towards a stop sign – at which it did not stop.

“I could not get the licence plate numbers because I was unconscious and I could not see if it was a man or woman driving, but I think the car was blue or grey metallic,” she said.

A man stopped to assist Grignard and took her home, from where she went to the Linmed Hospital to be stabilised and then to the Sunshine Hospital, in Actonville.

The impact of the hit-and-run left her with a fractured arm and caused her to spend three days in hospital.

“I had steel plates and pins inserted and my arm will be in a sling for the next eight weeks, until it is healed,” she said.

“I will then have to attend physiotherapy.”

Grignard has opened a case of negligent driving at the Benoni SAPS and hopes the person responsible will be found.

She will take the side mirror to a local company that will attempt to track it’s owner.

What shocks Grignard the most is that President Kruger Street is popular with joggers, people walking their dogs and cyclists, and that St Dunstan’s College is situated on the street.

“People should not drive crazily on a residential road, because it puts other people in danger,” she said.

“I would like to thank the Sunshine Hospital staff, especially management, for their kind help and service.”