Taxi crash claims 7 lives on N3 near Villiers
Seven
have been killed after a minibus taxi they were travelling in overturned on the
N3 toll road between Villiers in the Free State and Heidelberg in Gauteng on
Monday morning.
Five people were injured in the crash, with two sustaining serious injuries.
Road Traffic Management Corporation’s spokesperson, Simon Zwane, says the cause of the crash remains unclear.
“The RTMC has sent a team of crash investigators to Dasville, where a taxi overturned. The exact cause of the accident is unknown, and the road has been temporarily closed to ensure uninterrupted investigation by the investigators on the scene.”
On Saturday 11 people were killed in an accident, involving minibus taxi and a bakkie, on the N2 outside Dutywa in the Eastern Cape.
The minibus taxi was carrying 10 passengers, eight of whom died on the scene.
The bakkie was reported to be carrying four passengers and three died on the scene while the other sustained serious injuries.
Additional reporting by Algoa FM