The chairperson of the Strandfontein Community Policing Forum and her husband have escaped injury after a taxi involved in an apparent robbery crashed into their car and another vehicle on Monday.
Sandy Schuter-Flowers and her husband, Faizel Flowers, had been handing out food to the elderly, unemployed people and the homeless in Old Strandfontein and were on their way to Bayview when they were hit by the taxi.
“We were on Spine Road and a taxi came at a speed in our lane,” she explains.
“The driver was in a scuffle of some kind inside the vehicle and he lost control of the van.
“Faizel reacted quickly (by swerving out the way), else it would have been a head-on collision, but the taxi still swerved into us and a vehicle behind us.”
She says the taxi crashed to a halt at the bus stop.
Sandy says miraculously no one was injured and they then learnt that the driver had been fighting off a robber who had pretended to be a passenger.
MIRACLE: Schuter-Flowers
“Faizel moved to the taxi and I called emergency services.
“Our volunteers responded to the scene to make sure that our property was safe
“We discovered that the driver of the taxi had been hijacked or robbed, by the last person in the vehicle.”
“The food we were going to deliver spilled over to the back of the vehicle but we managed to save some which were later distributed by our volunteers.”
Police did not respond to any Daily Voice queries.