An East Lothian motorcyclist has said that he witnessed the driver of the HGV that crashed onto the tracks at Wallyford escape by “kicking through the windshield.”
James Murden, 37, from Prestonpans, was travelling towards Wallyford when he heard a loud crash and saw a cloud of dust in the air.
He says that he was approaching the roundabout from Prestonpans and immediately pulled over at the Suzuki garage to call 999 at around 1:30pm.
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James believes that he saw what “looked like the front end of the truck in the air” and rushed to the scene after he had alerted the emergency services.
He added that several people had run over to the wall where the HGV had crashed through and onto the rails on the afternoon of Thursday June 23.
