Five people die in a car accident

By Busisiwe Mtabane

Five people have died in an accident outside Cradock on Thursday morning. Police spokesperson Captain Erris Claassen says a truck had tried to overtake a bakkie towing a caravan from Colesberg to Port Elizabeth at 08:30 on the N10 highway Between Middelburg and Cradock. The driver of the bakkie and four passengers died. A nine-year-old girl who was in the vehicle is in a serious condition in hospital in Middelburg. Police arrested the driver of the truck on five counts of culpable homicide.