A 15-year-old girl died after a 23-year-old BMW driver lost control of his car and ploughed into a group of friends in Kensington.
|||Cape Town - A 15-year-old girl died and her three friends were seriously injured when a car ploughed into them on the corner of Voortrekker Road and 8th Avenue in Kensington.
Provincial police spokesman FC van Wyk said the incident occurred at about 2.30am on Sunday.
The driver had sustained extensive injuries and the girl had died on the scene.
A culpable homicide case had been opened.
ER24 spokeswoman Vanessa Jacobs said the car crashed into a wall of a corner building and hit four pedestrians on the pavement.
Jacobs said the vehicle, a BMW, stood shredded at the side of the road after the crash and car parts were scattered for metres.
The three surviving pedestrians were taken to different hospitals and were said to have suffered serious injuries.
Groote Schuur Hospital spokesman Alaric Jacobs said two teenage girls were being treated there and were both in a stable condition.
Western Cape traffic chief Kenny Africa said traffic police had received reports of eight other deaths over the weekend.
Five occupants of an Audi were killed when their vehicle crashed on the N7 near Melkbosstrand at about 7am on Saturday.
The two other incidents occurred in Macassar and on the N2 to Mossel Bay.
One involved a pedestrian and the other a cyclist who died in a hit-and-run incident.
About 892 drivers were tested by traffic police for alcohol over the weekend, and 27 were arrested for driving while over the legal limit.
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