Two dead, six seriously injured after bakkie overturns
The fatal crash on Sunday morning, brings to eight, the number of people killed on provincial roads this weekend.
LIMPOPO – Two people were killed in an early morning crash on the D19 road in the Capricorn District on Sunday, 18 October.
The incident involved a bakkie and according to reports, the driver lost control and the bakkie overturned near at Lepotlako. Two people were killed and six, including the driver, sustained serious injuries, said Mike Maringa, Media Liaison Officer for the Department of Transport.
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A total of eight people died in four fatal road crashes in Limpopo this weekend. “The major incident was a multiple car crash that claimed three lives at Mooketsi on the R81 road on Saturday afternoon. “It’s alleged that two sedans were involved in a sideswipe collision, whereby the one veered into the oncoming lane and collided head-on with an oncoming SUV.”
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On Friday, 21-year-old man was killed after the tractor he was driving overturned on the R573 road in Sekhukhune district. Also in Sekhukhune, two people died and four others sustained minor injuries after two sedans collided and overturned on the N11 on Saturday morning.
Maringa said most the incidents were as result of reckless and negligent driving. “MEC Mavhungu Lerule-Ramakhanya has howevre, noted a decrease in pedestrian incidents in the past two weeks, but says the number road fatalities over weekends is still high. She called on motorists to observe the rules of the road.”
Earlier this month, the MEC deployed extra officers along provincial roads in an effort to lower road fatalities over weekends. These extra efforts, this weekend, saw scores of motorists arrested for driving under the influence of alcohol and for speeding, Maringa concluded.
