Central SA
Accident on R42 Barrage Road outside Vereeniging claims one life─── 05:34 Tue, 21 Feb 2023
One person was killed on Monday afternoon when their light motor vehicle crashed into a bridge on the R42 Barrage Road outside of Vereeniging.
ER24 and other services arrived on the scene at 12h27 to find a light motor vehicle smashed against a concrete bridge support well alight.
The Provincial Fire Services began to battle the blaze while the local authorities began to divert traffic.
Once the blaze had been extinguished, medics found the driver's body trapped in the vehicle. Unfortunately, the driver had already succumbed to their injuries. Nothing more could be done, and they were declared dead.
The exact details surrounding this incident are unknown, but local authorities were on the scene for further investigations.
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