'I saw Lebo die'
2006-10-24 07:29
Johannesburg - The car carrying Afropop songbird Lebo Mathosa hit a steel barrier alongside the highway.
Then it crashed into a signboard.
It launched into the air, smashed to the ground and rolled five times before hitting a tree about 200m further on.
Bits of wreckage were scattered all over the place.
The 20-year-old man who was driving the luxury Toyota Prado 4X4 got out and stood dazed next to the smashed vehicle.
But Lebo lay dying... she was dead before an ambulance could even take her to hospital.
She lay in a pool of her own blood only a few metres from the wreck of the car in which she had been returning home after a party thrown on Sunday night by Bondo Ntuli, a station manager at Yfm.
Tow truck driver Karrin Aarons was on the scene as Lebo's life drifted away.
Driver shocked
It happened just after midnight at the N3 highway near Vosloorus.
Inspector George Mokheseng of the Ekurhuleni Metro cops confirmed there were no skid marks.
"When we got there the driver was still in a state of shock. He could not say anything."
Police cannot identify the driver of the death car while their investigations are continuing.
"She had numerous internal injuries, said Inspector Kobeli Mokheseng, spokesperson for the Ekurhuleni Metro Police.
A friend of Lebo, Pinky Dadu, also came on the scene shortly afterwards. She and Lebo had been at the same party.
Pinky sobbed: "We have known each other for the past ten years... it is too sad to lose her like this."
Alberton Police say they have opened a case of culpable homicide against the driver.
- Daily Sun