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Twenty one killed on roads over weekend─── 05:30 Mon, 29 Sep 2014
Hartswater - Twenty one people have been killed in road accidents in KwaZulu-Natal and the Northern Cape over the weekend, officials said on Sunday.
A man has been arrested in the Northern Cape for culpable homicide after 13 people were killed and 26 injured when a bakkie and a taxi collided on the N18 near Hartswater, police said on Sunday.
"The passengers from the bakkie were flung off and strewn all over the N18 and others landed into a nearby water canal," Lieutenant Olebogeng Tawana said.
Four bodies were found in the canal.
The accident happened between Taung and Magogong on Saturday afternoon.
The jaws-of-life had to be used to free people who were trapped inside the taxi, Tawana said.
Twelve people were declared dead on the scene while one died while admitted to hospital.
The injured were taken to Hartswater, Taung and Klerksdorp hospitals.
The 59-year-old driver of the bakkie was expected to appear in the Hartswater Magistrate's Court on Monday.
In KwaZulu-Natal, five people were killed when the taxi they were travelling in overturned in the Uthungulu district in Richards Bay on Saturday night, emergency medical services spokesman Robert Mckenzie said.
Paramedics found several people trapped in the wreckage.
Four people died at the scene, while the fifth victim, a three-month-old baby died in hospital, Mckenzie said.
He said the vehicle rolled down the embankment after it veered off the steep winding Oribi Gorge road.
Eleven other people were injured in the accident. One was critically injured, five sustained serious injuries and the other five had minor injuries.
They were treated on the scene before being transported to Murchison and Port Shepstone hospitals.
In separate accidents, a man was killed and six people were injured when two cars collided on the R612 near Breamer on Sunday, Mckenzie said.
A 30-year-old woman was in a critical condition and was stabilised on the scene. The cause of the accident was not known.
In Durban, two men were killed on Sunday around 2am when a vehicle they were travelling in lost control and collided with a tree near the Kendra hall, paramedics said.
The accident happened on Sydenham Road [John Zikhali Road], Rescue Care spokesman Garrith Jamieson said.
Paramedics arrived to find the vehicle on its side and the men lying on the road. They had already succumbed to their injuries.
The cause of the accident was unclear.
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"The passengers from the bakkie were flung off and strewn all over the N18 and others landed into a nearby water canal," Lieutenant Olebogeng Tawana said.
Four bodies were found in the canal.
The accident happened between Taung and Magogong on Saturday afternoon.
The jaws-of-life had to be used to free people who were trapped inside the taxi, Tawana said.
Twelve people were declared dead on the scene while one died while admitted to hospital.
The injured were taken to Hartswater, Taung and Klerksdorp hospitals.
The 59-year-old driver of the bakkie was expected to appear in the Hartswater Magistrate's Court on Monday.
In KwaZulu-Natal, five people were killed when the taxi they were travelling in overturned in the Uthungulu district in Richards Bay on Saturday night, emergency medical services spokesman Robert Mckenzie said.
Paramedics found several people trapped in the wreckage.
Four people died at the scene, while the fifth victim, a three-month-old baby died in hospital, Mckenzie said.
He said the vehicle rolled down the embankment after it veered off the steep winding Oribi Gorge road.
Eleven other people were injured in the accident. One was critically injured, five sustained serious injuries and the other five had minor injuries.
They were treated on the scene before being transported to Murchison and Port Shepstone hospitals.
In separate accidents, a man was killed and six people were injured when two cars collided on the R612 near Breamer on Sunday, Mckenzie said.
A 30-year-old woman was in a critical condition and was stabilised on the scene. The cause of the accident was not known.
In Durban, two men were killed on Sunday around 2am when a vehicle they were travelling in lost control and collided with a tree near the Kendra hall, paramedics said.
The accident happened on Sydenham Road [John Zikhali Road], Rescue Care spokesman Garrith Jamieson said.
Paramedics arrived to find the vehicle on its side and the men lying on the road. They had already succumbed to their injuries.
The cause of the accident was unclear.
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