A grandmother has described how she's fortunate to be alive after being certainly one of eight victims hit by a runaway truck in Adelaide.
Barbara Stewart was trapped beneath the heavy automobile, as bystanders raced to free her.
"I've a guardian angel on my shoulder, I am positive," she instructed 9News.
She stated she heard a crash and noticed a truck, however cannot keep in mind the rest of Sunday's accident on the Japanese Freeway at Glen Osmond.
The 72-year-old was ultimately freed and comforted by paramedics earlier than she was taken to the Royal Adelaide Hospital.
Regardless of her mangled automobile, she solely suffered cuts and bruises.
"I had glass picked out my head, and actually there is not a lot improper," she stated.
"I feel I am going to simply thank my fortunate stars, it isn't my time. I've grandchildren to see develop up.
Remarkably, Stewart additionally survived one other comparable crash on the identical intersection in 2014.
Additionally among the many casualties yesterday have been grandparents Murray and Vickie who have been dropping their granddaughter on the airport.
An off-duty nurse from one other automobile was the primary by their facet.
Klaudia and her household had seen the truck lose management coming down the freeway.
They are saying the 60-year-old driver sped previous two arrester beds.
"He was form of swerving out and in of visitors and we famous some smoke coming from the wheels," she stated.
Main crash officers spent many of the night time on the scene investigating.
There are recent requires extra to be completed on the junction.
The identical calls have been made in 2014, when a runaway truck, doing greater than 150 kilometres an hour, killed two folks.
Indicators line the descent into Adelaide, the place vehicles have to be in a low gear and might't go greater than 60km an hour.
Solutions to do away with freight on the Freeway have been labelled impractical, given 40 per cent of vehicles come from the Adelaide Hills.
"For the reason that 2014 crash, we have had 5 and a half million vehicles come down the hill and we have had 4 severe incidents," Steve Shearer from the Street Transport Affiliation SA stated.
"How do you set one thing in place as a security web to catch the tiny few who get it improper? There's actually just one reply, that is a 3rd arrester mattress."
With prices starting from $7m to $44m, the Royal Car Affiliation of SA offered six choices to put in the third security ramp again in 2020.
Charles Mountain from the RAA stated one thing must be completed.
"They do want some type of security mechanism to forestall the form of scenario we noticed yesterday," he stated.
The brand new authorities hasn't dominated it out, however may have to think about new know-how.
Premier Peter Malinauskas stated he's "open-minded to re-explore" the difficulty.
One key security emergency measure was enacted yesterday, and the fast actions of visitors administration employees might need saved lives.
A call was made to alter the Glen Osmond Street lights from purple to inexperienced, when it turned clear the truck was in bother additional up.