Miracle Escape for Customers After Speeding Car Ploughs into Petrol Station in Amanzimtoti
Three men in Amanzimtoti, South Africa, had a miracle escape – missing death by inches – when a speeding car ploughed straight through the front of a busy petrol station. As the shocking video below shows, just 10 seconds earlier the two customers had been walking in the exact spot where the VW Golf smashed […]
Three men in Amanzimtoti, South Africa, had a miracle escape – missing death by inches – when a speeding car ploughed straight through the front of a busy petrol station.
As the shocking video below shows, just 10 seconds earlier the two customers had been walking in the exact spot where the VW Golf smashed through the glass frontage.
The two customers, and the garage employee miraculously missed being seriously injured by the out-of-control car.
In the CCTV the shop worker at a Caltex garage in Amanzimtoti, just south of Durban in KwaZulu-Natal, carries a hand sanitizer.
He had just sprayed the hands of the two customers who can be seen winding their way through the sweet aisles on their way to the cash till on the right.
The approaching headlights of the speeding VW can be seen reflected off a low wall in the shop as fate deals all three unsuspecting men a lucky hand.
The car then smashed through the front doors and windows in a huge shower of glass and mangled window frames terrifying the three men inside.
The VW demolished a low front wall and a door frame torn from its hinges hit the garage worker and sent him flying through the air onto the ground.
The white car then crashed into a second low wall which brought it to a total halt, having destroyed the sweet displays and causing thousands of rands worth of damage.
The garage employee can be seen in the video, dazed on the floor with his hands on his head as the customers briefly check on him and then head for the safety of the exit. (He was fortunately not injured.)
The car driver emerged shortly after the video ends and runs away from the shop. He is now being hunted by Amanzimtoti Police on a number of charges.
FreshStop store boss Mark Hardman said: “The driver filled up with petrol then started his car and drove straight into our store then abandoned it and ran off.
“The police came to the scene but the driver had fled. There were luckily no injuries and we got the store quickly fixed up and it is now fully open.”
South African Police Service spokesman Captain Nqobile Gwala said the matter had been reported to local police who were trying to locate the driver.