Trucking authorities issue an urgent plea to motorists to take extra care on the roads this festive season, hours after a fatal head-on collision between a motorbike and a truck.
"The video footage we're showing today graphically shows the position a truck driver far too often finds themselves in when a motorist makes an unwise and unsafe decision."
"It happens that quick. All you can do is hold the steering wheel, hit the brakes and hope for the best. Luckily I picked up on the situation fairly quick, otherwise she would probably not be here today," he said. "Having to live with what's happened, the trauma of that — it stays with you forever, it never goes away," she said.
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