One dead as truck hits bus crowd
ONE person was killed and five injured after a truck crashed into people waiting for a bus in south Sydney.
The truck driver has told police he may have had a “medical episode” about 7.45am yesterday before his vehicle clipped the gutter, veered across oncoming traffic and hit a traffic light near Green Square railway station.
The B-double — which was carrying a load of bricks — then ploughed through a group of people waiting at a bus stop before smashing into an abandoned building.
The body of a 44-year-old woman had to be recovered from rubble.
Five others were injured, including three seriously.
NSW Police Superintendent Andrew Holland said initial investigations found that the pedestrian who died was a woman who was “knocked into the building by the sheer force of the truck”.
The truck driver was trapped in his vehicle for about 45 minutes.
“He (the driver) was freed and taken to hospital, he may have had a medical episode, but that is yet to be confirmed,” Supt Holland told reporters at the scene.
A 21-year-old female pedestrian remains in a critical condition in St Vincent’s Hospital. A 26-year-old woman and two male pedestrians were also taken to Royal Prince Alfred Hospital.
Witness Robert Leash said the crash “freaked him out”.
“I didn’t know there were people there when all that happened,” he told reporters.
“It was a whole lot worse than I thought it was.”