By Paul Nyathi

A 59 year old woman has been killed in a horrific accident on the Harare to Chitungwiza Highway on the accident prone Manyame Bridge on Wednesday evening.

The woman was knocked down by a fast moving Mazda B1800 pick up truck as she attempted to cross the busy highway seconds after disembarking from a bus.

ZimEye.com sources at the scene of the accident said that the woman had just got off a bus with her husband coming from a funeral on Mutoko when they attempted to cross the highway.

The husband is reported to have dashed through the extremely busy highway and crossed while his wife was following behind.

The woman was unfortunate as she was knocked down by the very fast moving bakkie and died on the spot.

The name of the woman who has since been identified can not be published as some next of kin are still being contacted on the death.

At the time of writing this news article the body of the deceased had still not been removed from the scene thirty minutes after the accident as police from St Mary’s were still attending to the scene.

Traffic between the two cities got heavily congested and stretched back for over a kilometre on either sides of the scene.