2011-11-27 10:17
Welkom – Three people were killed and a woman critically injured when two cars collided in the junction of Thabong and Van Riebeeck streets on Saturday evening.
Netcare911 spokesperson Jeffrey Wicks said the cause of the accident and the series of events leading up to it remained unclear and the police had opened a docket.
It seemed as if the two cars had entered the junction simultaneously and collided, one striking the side of the other.
Paramedics arrived at the scene to find the vehicle which had been struck was a meter taxi. It had been carrying a woman and her two toddlers.
Both the children and the taxi driver were killed on impact and were declared dead at the scene and the woman was taken to hospital.
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