More vehicles struck by stray bullets on M4
Months after the first incident was reported, two new victims have come forward, claiming stray bullets had struck their cars along the M4.
THE mystery surrounding stray bullets striking vehicles on the M4 between uMhlanga and eMdloti have recently resurfaced. This after three new victims have reportedly been affected by the anomaly.
Northglen News managed to get the accounts of two of the victims. Last week, eMdloti resident, Wendy Dunbar, was left shaken during her routine commute home at around 5.30pm when the window of her front passenger door exploded, sending shards of glass into her face and across the passenger seat and floor.
“I was stuck in bumper-to-bumper traffic just before the Sibaya traffic circle. There was nobody in sight and I don’t believe it was a hijacking. It just wouldn’t make sense,” she said.
Dunbar said she was not able to recover a bullet, but had heard of two other incidents occurring that same day.
Fellow eMdloti resident, Carl Dornback, recalled an eerily similar experience which he said occurred no more than 15 minutes earlier on the same stretch of road. “I was travelling north in the left-hand lane towards the Sibaya traffic circle. Then suddenly I heard my rear left passenger window shatter. Fortunately I have anti-smash and grab film, so my window didn’t break. I kept on driving. I knew better than to stop,” he said.
Dornback managed to find a lead pellet stuck in his window when he finally stopped.
“I have heard reports from a security company that they have received call-outs and complaints regarding people hunting buck in the forest, he said. It could be that or something else entirely,” he said.
The first of such incidents was reported in August. Leon Bezuidenhout was also travelling along the M4 when his car was reportedly struck by a bullet at around 7.30pm – also just before the Sibaya traffic circle. While Bezuidenthout was not able to recover evidence of any projectile, gun experts had reportedly confirmed that it had been a bullet that struck the car.
Lt Raymond Deokaran of Durban North SAPS confirmed that one case had been opened at the station and that an investigation is underway. He urged residents to reports such incidents and also appealed to anyone with information pertaining to the case to come forward.
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