3 killed near Uitenhage
2010-09-07 21:09
-
Accidents
A resource for all Health and Safety professionals, particularly those who have responsibility for...
Now R389.95
buy now
Johannesburg - Three people have died in separate incidents in the Uitenhage area since Sunday, police said.
Siyamthanda January, 5, of Kwanobuhle, died on Tuesday morning when he was run over by a truck as it pulled off from the side of the road, where he had been playing, said Lieutenant Colonel Priscilla Naidu.
Residents flagged down the truck driver and told him what had happened. The child died on the way to hospital.
In a second incident, a man in his 20s died in an apparent hit and run on the R75 to Port Elizabeth on Monday night.
Naidu said a truck driver noticed a stationary car with its hazard lights on at the side of the road at 21:00.
As he neared the vehicle he drove over a "bump on the road".
The driver of the other vehicle told him there was someone in the middle of the road and he was trying to flag down motorists to warn them.
"We believe he died because another car hit him, but we have to wait for the post-mortem," she said.
In the third accident, Patrick Mkoko, 56, of Kwanobuhle, died in the Jansenville hospital on Monday after being critically injured outside Wolwefontein on Sunday night.
The Volkswagen Golf he was in overturned when the driver lost control.
All five of the occupants were injured, but only Mkoko died.
The 21-year-old driver did not have a licence. She was a relative of Mkoko.
- SAPA