An East Lothian motorcyclist has told how he witnessed the driver of a HGV that crashed onto rail tracks escape by “kicking through the windshield.”
James Murden, 37, from Prestonpans, was travelling towards Wallyford when he heard a loud bang 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 on Thursday.
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James said 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 the truck had crashed through before plummeting onto the rails.
