Susan Tsvangirai, the wife of Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai, bore the full impact when the vehicle she and her husband were travelling in was sideswapped by a haulage truck near Chivhu on Friday.Susan was seated behind the driver of their car when a haulage truck
encroached onto their lane. Their driver swerved and the truck crushed
the right hand side of the vehicle, behind the driver. Their
landcruiser veered off the road and rolled three times.
Reports we have received say Susan survived the intial impact and when
she was pulled out of the vehicle she was talking, but clearly in great
pain. But a close family friend told us she lost consciousness on the
way to Harare's Avenues Clinic, where she was pronounced dead on
arrival. Initial reports suggest she might have broken her back and
suffered multiple leg fractures.
The collision happened when the couple were travelling to Buhera,
Tsvangirai's rural home area where he was due to address a rally on
Saturday. The MDC's secretary-general, Tendai Biti, was one of the
party's senior officials who visited the scene of the accident.
A policeman who attended the scene said that Tsvangirai sustained head
injuries but was looking lucid and talking to rescuers who pulled them
out of the truck. Tsvangirai was bleeding from his head wounds, while
the driver and their aide suffered minor injuries.
At the avenues clinic, Tsvangirai had X-rays that proved there was not much damage to his head, but he has suffered whiplash.
SW Radio Africa
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