Two children and a woman died after the taxi in which they were travelling collided with a truck outside De Doorns on the N1.
|||Cape Town - Two children and a woman died after the taxi in which they were travelling collided with a truck outside De Doorns on the N1 shortly after 5am on Monday morning.
Twenty-two people were transported to Worcester Hospital for treatment, said Cape Winelands Health District spokeswoman Jo-Anne Otto.
Constable Lybey Swartz, communications officer for De Doorns police, said that both vehicles were travelling in the direction of Touws River.
“The taxi collided with the back of the truck in the process and the driver lost control. Two people sitting in the front seat died - a mother, about 45 years old, and her three-year-old son. Another boy, aged about 12, who was sitting in the back seat, also passed away,” she said.
The names of the deceased have not yet been released.
In a separate crash, three men died on the N7 outside Malmesbury on Sunday night when their vehicle collided with a bus. One victim, Michael Heideman, 46, was a lieutenant who worked at Paarl East police station. The other men were Booi Neels, 41, and Ruduwaan Fransman, 31.
A case of culpable homicide has been opened for investigation.
A 28-year-old woman also died on Monday morning when she lost control of her vehicle, a Toyota Avanza, on the road between Prince Albert and Leeu Gamka, said provincial traffic spokesman Jacques Mostert.
Cape Argus