Driver Atwell Marima in disbelief at the sight of the truck's condition.
There was some panic when a fuel truck jack-knifed on the R28 on Saturday at approximately 3pm outside the West Village entrance in the South Bound lane.
The truck stood in the lane on the curb of the intersection in the South bound lane with the cab all the way to the left side of the body, making it impossible to counter-steer the truck back into normal position.
According to the driver of the Forever Fuels truck, Atwell Marima, “I was driving and then I started to tramp the brakes but the road was slippery. The truck started to swerve – I tried to make it straight but it refused.”
There were no injuries. West Rand Emergency Services were on the scene as well as Mogale Traffic Police as the incident happened on the border of Randfontein and Mogale City.
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For more than 4 and a half years, Clinton Botha was a journalist at Roodepoort Record. His articles were regularly published in the Northside Chronicle now known as the Roodepoort Northsider. Clinton is also the editor of Randfontein Herald since July 2020. As a sports fanatic he wormed his way into various "beats - as the media would know it - and admits openly that his big love always have something to do with a scoreboard, crowds and usually a ball that hops.
