A five-year-old boy and seven men died in a collision between two cars in Keimoes on Saturday night. Police are investigating a case of culpable homicide after a Hyundai Accent and Renault Clio collided head-on in another #NCroadaccidents. A Toyota Condor with eight occupants was also found in a nearby veld. Police spokesperson, Sergio Kock, says the Condor overturned and when police arrived on the scene the injured occupants were lying outside the wreckage. The names of the deceased have not been released yet.

In another #Fsroadaccidents, the daughter of a local police officer from the Park Road Police Station, Eugene Ferreira, died in a collision between two cars in Bloemfontein on Sunday.

Ferreira’s 9-year-old daughter, Larissa Ferreira, was declared dead on the scene while her mother, Ansja, and her sister, Kaylah, sustained moderate injuries and are being treated in a local hospital.

According to Mediclinic Bloemfontein spokesperson, Barbara Steenkamp, Ansja and the 12-year-old Kaylah are doing well under circumstances.

Steenkamp says they are in a stable condition after the collision in the neighbourhood, Universitas, at about 15:00.

A woman in the other car, a Porsche Cayenne, also sustained moderate injuries and she was apparently taken to another hospital in town. Police spokesperson, Chaka Marope, said police are investigating a case of culpable homicide. The exact cause of the accident is yet to be determined.

Meanwhile, in another #NWroadaccidents, a man was killed and three others were injured last night when a car collided into the side of another car on the N4 Highway at Rustenburg. ER24 spokesperson, Russel Meiring, says when paramedics of ER24 arrived on the scene, both vehicles were on the side of the road. The occupants had already been pulled from the wreckages by members of the public who stopped at the accident scene to assist the injured. He says advanced life support interventions followed in an effort to revive a man.

Meiring says the man, unfortunately, was declared dead on the scene. Three men sustained moderate injuries. They were treated by paramedics and taken to hospital for treatment.

The man who died in the Rustenburg crash was one of several fatalities that were reported in Central South Africa since the weekend.

A middle aged man died when he allegedly lost control of his motorcycle on the R500 near Parys in the Free State on Sunday.

According to ER24, paramedics arrived at the scene and found the man lying ten to fifteen meters away from his motorcycle, next to a game fence.

The man, believed to be in his fifties, had sustained multiple fractures after crashing into the electric fence.

He was declared dead on the scene.

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