GEORGE NEWS FLASH - The only thing that Juanita Foster could think about as a tree crashed through the windscreen of their car during the stormy wind on Saturday afternoon was the safety of her children.

With glass flying through the car, after a branch penetrated and narrowly missed her legs, Foster, the mayor's personal assistant, felt an overwhelming urge to get her daughters out the car to safety.

Forster, who was X-rayed on Monday for spinal injuries, and who may have suffered some whiplash, said the freak accident happened while she and her husband, Brian, and their two daughters Arabella (15) and Gabariélla (13), were driving in Davidson Road, George. They were on their way home after attending a hockey match in Oudtshoorn.

Recalling the traumatic incident she said this week, "My only thought was for the safety of my daughters, who were in a state of shock. It was with by the grace of God that we survived unscathed."

Read more in Thursday's George Herald, and online.


Brian and Juanita Foster. While the branch shattered the windscreen and, with glass flying through the car, she worried for her daughters' safety. The trauma only hit her a day later. Her husband, Brian, was driving at the time. Photo: Pauline Lourens

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