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Phew! A close shave
John Morcombe
18 April 2008
A 10-TONNE truck hurtled into a bus stop yesterday where 30 people had been waiting just minutes earlier.
The Wakehurst Parkway shelter was demolished when the driver swerved to avoid vehicles banked up behind a car waiting to turn right into Seaforth Oval.
No one was in the shelter at the time, but earlier it would have been filled with commuters sheltering from the rain.
The driver was not injured, but the bus shelter was so badly damaged it will have to be replaced.
Wakehurst Parkway resident Dave Waller said he heard screeching brakes and then the sound of the tip truck crashing.
``Southbound cars were banked up while a car waited to enter the oval, and the truck didn't have time to stop in the wet conditions after coming over the hill,'' he said.
``The driver did the right thing he swerved to avoid hitting the cars and smashed into the bus shelter instead.''
The accident happened at the spot where residents and users of the oval have been trying for a long time to get traffic lights installed.
Mr Waller said there was an accident or near-accident almost every month.
``We've been trying for years to get lights installed at the entrance to the oval,'' he said.
The Burnt St project has been approved but stalled by red tape over land ownership and endangered plants.
The RTA and Planning Department are ready to pay for the work, which was due to begin almost a year ago. But the need for a species impact statement and the transfer of a small slice of land from the Lands Department to Manly Council have caused delays. This week the Lands Department told the council it could have ``care, control and management of theland'' .
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