![]() Eric Fahey heard the crash outside his home near 93 and now he is dealing with the impact the day after. The day after the crash, drivers were sitting in traffic all morning and day. We even tried to tell them that we are just trying to find out how this could have happened because it is causing major problems for drivers here. Dove Transporation, the company from Alabama that employs the driver, would only tell us to stop calling because they are trying to run a business. Major repairs over I-93 South are underway, and the state said another morning commute could see the same delays as today. “We saw the people running to help, and the traffic light had been hit and on the ground.>PREVIOUS: Delays expected for several months after truck crashes into overpass on I-93 in Medford “As soon as the truck went past the crossing we started to hear cries and screams of a man with the entire crossing completely in disarray,” he said. Parnak Dave told he was at the City Road crossing in an Uber waiting for the lights to turn green when he saw a silver truck with a tanker. Witnesses say the truck hit the corner at speed, taking out the pedestrians standing on the footpath. One was critical and the two others serious but stable. Two men and a woman were taken to Royal Melbourne Hospital, also with lower body injuries. ‘Cries and screams’: Horror scene as bystanders try to helpĪmbulance Victoria said two men were taken to Alfred Hospital with lower body injuries and one of them was critical. “It was always going to take an accident for anyone to realise how poorly planned that new area of Southbank is.”Īnother man wrote on Victoria Police’s Facebook post, “This road/intersection is main bypass for tunnel transport & is poorly designed needs to be upgraded to reflect its importance as a major road”. “The new intersections in this area are SO dangerous for pedestrians,” one woman replied to Victoria Police’s tweet about the incident. One local resident wrote on a Facebook group for the area that he had “always thought” that area of the footpath was “incredibly dangerous, narrow and sloping to the road” and that he was “furious” nothing had been done about it earlier. Many on social media spoke about the dangers of the intersection. “It’s a terribly dangerous corner, it is no surprise to any locals that this has happened.” “I could hear screaming when I opened the windows,” she said. Hopefully this is the start of discussions for future planning.”īronwyn Cook, who lives in a nearby apartment building, told she heard the collision from 34 floor up. “It was a productive meeting and highlighted these areas of concern to him that he wasn’t previously aware of. “I was wanting to highlight the impact of trucks on the City Rd and Power St corner where the trucks often ride over the footpath encroaching on pedestrian space as there is very little room between the corner of Southbank Grand and the road edge,” Mr Penna wrote. It was published on the same day of the incident. ![]() Mr Penna also wrote about the intersection in his monthly column for the community’s newspaper. Tony Penna, the president of Southbank Resident Association, told he met with Melbourne’s deputy lord mayor Nicholas Reece only a fortnight ago to “show him that footpath and how dangerous it is to pedestrians”. The pedestrians, four men and a woman and all aged in their 20-30s, have been taken to hospital with two men suffering critical injuries. Thanks to the witness, police managed to locate the driver, arresting him and finding his truck more than 20km away in Truganina. The driver, a 64-year-old man from Wyndham Vale, did not stop at the scene, police said, and continued driving via Power Street. “It appears that while performing the left hand turn the truck cut the intersection corner and mounted the footpath, taking out the traffic light which fell to the ground,” police said in a statement. Victoria Police continues to investigate the circumstances of the serious crash, which happened in Southbank about 7pm, and left two people in a serious condition. ![]() The passing motorist witnessed the alleged incident unfold, following the B-double truck driver through Melbourne and alerting authorities. A horrified driver, who witnessed a truck driver allegedly plough into a group of pedestrians before seeing him flee the scene in Melbourne, is being credited with securing the truckie’s arrest.
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