Cement mixer lands on woman (From Surrey Comet)

Cement mixer lands on woman

9:44am Thursday 18th December 2008 in News

Firefighters had to lift a cement mixer off a woman after a collision in Clapham two weeks ago.

The woman, in her 40s, was thought to be walking along the pavement when she was hit by the machine which pinned her down by her hair.

Crews from Tooting and Battersea rushed to the crash on Nightingale Lane with air balloons, which they used to lift the mixer.

She was then treated for head injuries by helicopter doctors and ambulances and taken to St George’s Hospital.

The accident happened at 3.30pm on Friday, November 28, and ambulance staff could only confirm that it involved a lorry.

Watch manager John Chambers said: “I don’t think the lorry run her over, but she had been knocked into a wall. She wasn’t in any condition to tell anyone what happened anyway.”