Monday, October 24, 2011

Ndebele calls for murder charges against driver accused of killing five joggers

Lusanda Bill
24 October 2011


Transport Minister Sibusiso Ndebele wants the driver of a Mercedes ML500 who slammed into six joggers in Midrand on Saturday to be charged with murder.

Four women and a man died on the scene, a seriously injured woman is being treated in hospital.

The joggers were preparing for next month’s Soweto Marathon.

It is alleged by witnesses that the driver was drunk.

At least 20-thousand drunk drivers have been arrested across South Africa over the past eleven months.

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