A man is in critical condition at the Moto’otua hospital after a freak accident on Wednesday.
The accident involved a bus, a truck and an excavator.
According to the Police, on Wednesday evening at Lauli’i, the Mafaufau Tasi Express bus from Falefa was heading home when a truck carrying an excavator passed by.
At a bend, the Police said the excavator fell from the truck and into the path of the bus.
Three passengers were injured and the bus driver is fighting for his life.
The Police claim that the truck, which was carrying the excavator, was at fault.
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“The truck was speeding and when it got to the curve at Lauli’i, that’s when the excavator fell off and onto the other side of the road,” a Police officer at the scene told the Samoa Observer.
“The truck is an open deck Mitsubishi truck and the truck driver did not secure the excavator at the back of it."
“When the excavator fell off, it flew up in the air and landed on the other side of the road right on the curve at Lauli’i and that’s why the bus driver could not see it.”
The Police officer said the accident could have been worse.
“It was a good thing that the bus only had three passengers,” he said.
“It could’ve been a lot worse because the bus smashed into the excavator, spun off the road and took it down to where a small Samoan fale was where it finally stopped.”
The Officer told the Samoa Observer that the truck driver should have secured the excavator.
“The bus driver was lucky that the Samoan Fale was there otherwise the bus would have made its way straight down to the ocean."
“The three passengers were not badly injured but they were complaining about chest pains when they were taken to the hospital.”
As for the driver, the Officer said he is in the Intensive Care Unit.
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