HARARE, Zimbabwe, March 7 (UPI) -- Zimbabwean Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai's political party says it will carry out its own investigation of the car crash that left him injured.
Tsvangirai, 56, was to be flown to Botswana for additional medical treatment, the BBC reported Saturday, citing a source in his party, the Movement for Democratic Change. He was injured and his wife Susan, 50, was killed Friday when their Toyota Landcruiser collided with a truck.
Despite their determination to conduct their own investigation, the MDC says nothing about the crash indicates foul play, the BBC said.
ABC News, citing unnamed U.S. officials, said the truck involved in the crash belonged to a contractor working for the U.S. and British governments. The U.S. broadcaster reported the truck, which was carrying a USAID, or U.S. Agency for International Development, insignia, had been purchased with U.S. government funds and its driver had been hired by a British development agency.
MDC General-Secretary Tendai Biti told the BBC the accident could have been avoided if a police escort had been provided and praised Susan Tsvangirai, calling her "a mother to us and to our struggle."
President Robert Mugabe, and his wife Grace visited Tsvangirai in hospital, officials said.
The truck is thought to have crossed into the opposite lane, side-swiping the Tsvangirais's Toyota and causing it to roll over three times. MDC officials told the British network.
MDC officials said Tsvangirai was on his way to his rural home in Buhera, where he planned to hold a weekend rally.
