Saturday, May 21, 2011

At least six people die in road accidents

By Lelethu Mquqo
21 May 2011


Road accidents have claimed at least six lives in South Africa during the past 12 hours.

Four men died in a car accident on the N-12 East in Lenasia when the car they were travelling in overturned.

The men were travelling from Potchefstroom when the accident occurred.

A woman was killed and sixteen other people were injured, three critically, when a fully-laden minibus taxi left the N-3’s southbound carriageway near Heidelberg.

Netcare 911 spokesperson Jeff Wicks says the taxi rolled several times before coming to a stop on its roof.

And in the Northern Cape a man was killed when he was struck by a light motor vehicle on the N-12 Transvaal Road near Kimberly.

The victim died before paramedics could attend to him.

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