Two men died and another was injured after the car they were in crashed into a house in Mitchells Plain.
|||Cape Town - Two men died and another was injured after the car they were in crashed into a house in Mitchells Plain early on Saturday.
The Honda Civic smashed through the outer vibracrete wall and into the living room of Carmen Janes’s house, on the corner of Capricorn Way and Park Avenue, Rocklands.
Janes said she was woken up after hearing a loud bang and feeling her house vibrate just after 5am.
“When I came to the living room, one of the people in the car was on the phone calling someone and telling them they were in an accident.
“The car was on its side and the emergency response team had to cut open the roof to get them out. The two of them died on the scene and there was a lot of blood.”
“There was just rubble and glass everywhere, the back walls of the house even shifted.
“This is the second time this happened here. The first time we had wooden fencing and the car stopped just before the door.
“One of our neighbours who was awake at the time said he never heard any brakes, just the loud bang. I remember just thinking if this car catches fire now… The disaster guy said we would have to demolish the walls and build them from scratch.”
Janes said her insurance company supplied the plywood that is now closing the gaping hole, where the front door and windows used to be.
She said at least five walls had to be rebuilt.
“People race down this road all the time and I think if we had some speed bumps it would help.”
Provincial EMS spokesman Darren Francis confirmed that two men, both 21, died on the scene and that another 21-year-old was taken to the Mitchells Plain Melomed hospital with minor injuries.”
Police spokesman Captain FC van Wyk said a case of culpable homicide would be investigated and that anyone with information can contact Crime Stop on 086 001 0111 or investigating officer Sergeant Vuyani Claasen on 021 370 1738.
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Cape Argus