Road carnage
This taxi and truck collided early on Friday morning, killing all six taxi passengers and the driver. The truck driver escaped injury
Emergency personnel work furiously to save the life of one of the critically injured passengers - all to no avail
This vehicle ploughed head-on into an oncoming bus on the Ngwelezane bypass road outside Empangeni on Thursday. All four occupants died
ELEVEN people were killed in two tragic City road accidents.
On Friday morning six passengers and a driver lost their lives when the taxi they were travelling in collided with a truck on the N2 near the Canefields turnoff.
Mercifully, the truck driver escaped injury.
The cause of the accident must still be ascertained.
Among the dead were two security officers who worked for Control Risk Group and who were on their way home after completing night shift.
The management and staff of CRG extend their condolences to the families and friends of the deceased.
In Empangeni, a head-on collision claimed the lives of four young men on Thursday. Their car crashed into and was trapped underneath a bus on the Ngwelezane bypass.
The two men in the front seats were killed instantly, while the two back seat passengers were initially treated by emergency services personnel on the scene for serious injuries.
Unfortunately one man died at the scene, while the other was transported to hospital, but did not survive.