Woman injured after transport truck backs into her

Mar 2, 2016

A woman has been injured, after being crushed behind a moving truck at Jordan Plaza on Cranberry Highway Wednesday morning, according to an eyewitness.

Though officials from the Onset Fire Department declined to comment at the scene, save to say “someone was injured,” initial broadcast reports said the unidentified woman, who works at Sears in the plaza, was trapped underneath a forklift.

Witness Amy Campinha said she heard a “bloodcurdling” scream as she was sitting in her office in the Brain Injury Association. She said she saw a Transport America supply truck backing up onto the woman, who was crouched on the ground.

“She just kept screaming and screaming,” Campinha said. “The truck just kept going and going.”

Campinha said she ran outside to help. Though the truck stopped before it killed or injured the woman further, Campinha said the woman’s knee was bleeding, and she was saying her hips hurt.

Campinha said the woman’s daughter, also unidentified, came running outside shortly after to tend to her mother. She said the woman kept asking the driver why he backed up, even though she didn’t signal him to do so.

“They must have a routine where she signals, ‘Okay, come back,’” Campinha said. “And she said, ‘I didn’t tell you to come back.’ It was horrible.”

Wareham EMS transported the woman away from the scene, but her condition is unknown at this time.