Truck hits woman

A 49-YEAR-old woman is in a stable condition at The Alfred hospital after being hit by a truck in Dandenong on Monday afternoon.
An ambulance was called to the corner of Pickett Street and Railway Parade at 2.35pm. Paramedic Vanessa Burgess said they arrived to find the woman lying on the road being kept still by her husband and bystanders stopping traffic.
“She was hit when the truck was going around a corner, knocking her to the road,” Ms Burgess said.
The woman, from Dandenong, suffered a cut to her head, a fractured left wrist and swelling to her forehead.