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John Stewart walked away unscathed when the runaway truck in the Field’s Hill crash demolished the rear end of his car.<\/p>\n
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Durban – Durbanite John Stewart appears to have cheated death a second time. He walked away unscathed when the runaway truck in the Field\u2019s Hill crash demolished the rear of his car on Thursday night. <\/p>\n
The truck crashed into four taxis, killing 22 people. Fifteen people were still in hospital on Sunday. <\/p>\n
Stewart, 64, left the accident scene without a scratch, one of the survivors of the bloody crash which has been described as the worst in the city\u2019s history. <\/p>\n
He was on his way to Pinetown to fetch his brother-in-law when the truck slammed into the back of his Toyota Corolla. <\/p>\n
\u201cI was at the intersection and the robot was red. I stopped. The robot then turned green and I took off. All I heard was a loud bang and my car spun around one and a half times. When the car stopped spinning, I was facing oncoming traffic,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n
Stewart said he sat in the car for two minutes, dazed and shocked, wondering what had hit him. <\/p>\n
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In 1978, the top of John Stewart’s car was taken off as he crashed into a truck.<\/p>\n
The Mercury<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cI never saw the truck. I looked across and saw a crumpled taxi. I thought that was what had hit me,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n When he got out of his car, a tow truck driver approached and asked if he was okay. <\/p>\n \u201cI said I thought the taxi across the road hit me. But he told me I had been hit by an 18-wheeler truck that had lost its brakes\u2026 I went around the back to see the damage and there was nothing from the rear wheels of my car. The back of the car had been ripped off,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n Stewart walked around the accident scene and saw two \u201creally crumpled taxis\u201d and two other badly damaged taxis. <\/p>\n Body parts were strewn all over and injured people lay on the road, helpless. <\/p>\n \u201cIf I had driven off a second slower, the truck would have hit me dead centre. I would have been a statistic. Those trucks need to be stopped. They can\u2019t carry on using Field\u2019s Hill,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n In 1978, Stewart, a father of three, narrowly escaped death when he was involved in a truck accident. <\/p>\n He had taken the Spine Road turn-off from the N3, going home to Westville. <\/p>\n \u201cAn 18-wheeler truck was going up and I was following. The truck had no visible light. All I remember was going under it. I hit the truck\u2019s back wheels and the car bounced back. The top of my car was taken off,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n Stewart was in hospital for three months after breaking a thigh bone and elbow and suffering head cuts. <\/p>\n His wife Janys, 56, described him as a miracle man. <\/p>\n gugu.mbonambi@inl.co.za <\/p>\n The Mercury<\/strong> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Mercury John Stewart walked away unscathed when the runaway truck in the Field’s Hill crash demolished the rear end of his car. Related Stories KZN crash: survivors tell of their night of horror Field\u2019s Hill crash: driver arrested DA: Ban heavy vehicles from Field\u2019s Hill Field\u2019s Hill crash: truck owner speaks KZN reels after […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[8275,953,2143],"class_list":{"0":"post-22509","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-durban","8":"tag-newspaper","9":"tag-the-mercury","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22509\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}