Friday, December 25, 2009

Four killed as vehicle overturns

By Kim Saulse
25 December 2009

Four people have died after the vehicle they were travelling in overturned near Kimberley.

A police spokesman, Captain Tony Modise, said the car had been travelling on the Barkly West-Winsorton Road yesterday morning when its tyre apparently burst.

The vehicle swerved off the road and overturned.

The five occupants had been flung out of the car.

A woman, aged 34, and a man, aged 23, died on the scene. Two female passengers died on their way to hospital.

The driver, aged 22, is in a serious but stable condition in hospital.

A case of culpable homicide has been opened.

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