LIMPOPO. – Six people died on Tuesday morning after a police vehicle and a white Mahindra bakkie were involved in a head-on collision on the R524 Levubu road in the Vhembe district. The deceased include two women and one male police officer, two male detention officers and the driver of the civilian vehicle.
Brig. Hlulani Mashaba, police spokesperson, says the police vehicle from Tshilwavhusiku police station was en route to a correctional facility in Thohoyandou with three detained prisoners when the collision occurred. Five people were initially declared dead at the scene, while a third police officer who was seriously injured and transported to a local hospital later succumbed to her injuries. A further detained prisoner was seriously injured and is being treated in hospital under police guard.
A case of culpable homicide has been opened at Makhado police station. The circumstances of the collision are being investigated. The identities of the deceased are known to police, but will only be released once their next of kin have been notified.
This article is an automatic English translation of a Nuusflits article originally published in Afrikaans. Read the Afrikaans original.
