Monday, February 25, 2008

Atlantis road crash claims four lives

By Rhodé Marshall
25 February 2008


During the early hours of Sunday morning, four people died after a head-on collision between two cars in Atlantis.

Three women and a man died on the scene subsequent to the accident in Dassenburg Road along the Cape West Coast.

“Three others were taken to hospital and some of the passengers had to be extracted from the wreckage (with) the jaws of life,” says Cape Town traffic spokesperson Searle Johannes.

The cause of the accident has not yet been confirmed.

Meanwhile police say that the body of a 17-year-old boy was discovered in bushes by passers-by near Cedar and Siberian Road in Rocklands.

“Yustin Ryan from Bontehuewel had a single gunshot wound to his stomach and we are investigating a case of murder,” says Police spokesperson Inspector Bernadine Steyn.

Anyone with information regarding Ryan's death is asked to contact the Investigating Officer, Sergeant Tanya Wilson at the Mitchells Plain police station on 021 370 1600.

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