By COLlive reporter
A tragedy was miraculously averted at a Chabad-run community kitchen in Australia, last Thursday.
Tess Ulvesund, who runs a cake manufacturing business from Our Big Kitchen in Sydney managed to dive out of the way as a 20-ton runaway truck barrelled towards her down a steep driveway.
The 31-year-old told Australia’s 9 News she had no idea she was a split second from being killed, an episode that was captured on surveillance camera.
“I looked up and saw this massive truck coming towards me and I just jumped out of the way,” she said. “The truck came rolling down and I could see a closing gap so I jumped between the truck and the wall.”
Our Big Kitchen, founded and run by Shliach Rabbi Dovid and Laya Slavin, provides a large commercial grade kitchen for community use and is housed in the Sydney Yeshiva Centre.
Ben Beirrman, an employee of Our Big Kitchen, saved her life by screaming out to Ulvesund to get out of the way.
“It just lost control and then it was like momentum, very, very fast, it was like a slippery slope,” he said. “I just heard this crash, bang and everything flew forward.”
The steep driveway is used by a building company, the community kitchen and a neighbouring retirement village.
A meeting is being arranged between the construction company and the community kitchen to ensure the driveway is safer, and to avoid potential disaster, the news reported.
“I am very thankful to Hashem for the miracle, knowing how many children and adults use the same area all the time,” Rabbi Slavin told COLlive.com. “It is a miracle from Heaven that nobody was hurt.”
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Wow what a miracle. At least no one got hurt.
wow that is good news that no one was hurt
A BIG miracle!!
And that is the reason why we never allow the cheder kinderlach to walk in that driveway.
Such a miracle, that driveway was asking for it…