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A Plettenberg Bay widow shares how her husband’s life was tragically cut short by an act of road rage

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Ashleigh Smit was left to pick up the pieces after her husband, Alan, was killed following a verbal altercation with a fellow driver on the Garden Route in 2019. (PHOTO: Supplied)
Ashleigh Smit was left to pick up the pieces after her husband, Alan, was killed following a verbal altercation with a fellow driver on the Garden Route in 2019. (PHOTO: Supplied)

She was waiting for him to join her and the kids for dinner when she got the call that turned her life upside down: her husband had been involved in a serious incident while on the road.

Ashleigh Smit, who lives in Plettenberg Bay but was visiting friends in Knysna that day, rushed to the local hospital where her husband, Alan, had been taken. Doctors told her to prepare for the worst: her husband’s life was hanging by a thread.

He’d sustained severe injuries to his skull and had been put on life support, but there was no brain activity. 

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