Three people die in car crash
2009-07-05 08:18
Johannesburg - Three people were killed after their vehicles collided head-on on Pretoria and Van Riebeeck roads in Kempton Park on Saturday night, Ekurhuleni metro police said.
Inspector Mveli Nhlapo said the two vehicles involved were travelling in opposite directions when they collided and three people died and two others were seriously injured.
He said two men who were travelling in a red VW Polo were both killed. One of the two women who were with a man in a VW Jetta also died.
The two survivors who were injured were rushed to a nearby hospital.
Nhlapo said preliminary investigation indicated that one of the vehicles was travelling at high speed and it was on the wrong side of the road.
Cases of culpable homicide together with reckless and negligence driving were opened.
- SAPA