Published: 2016 February 11 05:40:26 (5588 Views)

A CROSS BORDER trader has taken Tombs Motorways Bus Company to the civil court demanding R39,470 as compensation for her property that was lost when one of its buses was involved in an accident last year.

Privilege Mashawi lost property in an accident involving the bus and a haulage truck on May 27, 2015, along the Zvishavane-Shurugwi highway, which killed three people.

Mashawi blames the company and its driver for the accident and eventual loss of her property, but Tombs Motorways has denied liability.

Mashawi's lawyer Nomore Hlabano told Kwekwe Magistrate Vimbai Mutukwa yesterday that the bus driver, Willard Muchuweni, was exhausted at the time of the accident.

The bus driver conceded that he had placed the lives of passengers at risk when he agreed to drive a bus which had loaded goods inside the bus with passengers.

Tombs Motorways, in its defence, said the bus was traveling at 80km per hour in the early hours and the driver only lost control of the bus when the windscreen of the bus was shattered by loose steel poles from an oncoming haulage truck that did not stop.
The hearing continues on February 17.



- Chronicle

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