MPUMALANGA. – Three people have died after a truck collided with three vehicles at a crossing near Ngodwana in Mpumalanga on the N4 toll road on Wednesday afternoon. The deceased are an Irish man and woman and a Mozambican man.
Zandile Mavuso, spokesperson for the Department of Community Safety, Security and Liaison, says the truck was travelling on the D799 Kaapsehoop road when it allegedly missed the crossing and collided with two light delivery vehicles and a sports utility vehicle on the N4. The Irish man and woman in the SUV and the driver of one of the delivery vehicles were killed instantly. The drivers of the truck and the other delivery vehicle were taken to Kiaat Hospital with serious injuries.
Emergency services were on the scene. The circumstances of the accident are under investigation.
This article is an automatic English translation of a Nuusflits article originally published in Afrikaans. Read the Afrikaans original.
