Very sad, but atleast it did not break in two.

[Rouxenator]

This is really sad - so be warned.

Shortly after being dropped off at work a fireman and his partner was sent out to a crash scene. They were first to arrive on the scene of an accident where a cash in transit van skipped a red light at speed and crashed into a Corsa bakkie, dragging it for 200m.

Sadly the bakkie was driven by the firemans wife and she was on her way back after dropping him off at the station.

The only good news is that she did not take the kids with as she usually does and the Corsa bakkie did not break in two.

 

[supersunbird]

200m? Geez, how fast was that van travelling?

 

[Rouxenator]

Oops - forgot the source : http://www.dieburger.com/Stories/News/19.0.1542311727.aspx

 

[koeks]

sad indeed. is she alive?

 

[LazyLion]

is she ok?

 

[koeks]

200m? Geez, how fast was that van travelling?

a cash in transit van skipped a red light at speed and crashed into a Corsa bakkie, dragging it for 200m.

 

[PetrolHead]

That's terrible! Did the wife survive? What consequnces is the Cash in Transit van driver facing?

 

[Rouxenator]

is she ok?

Mev. Tracy Harper (37) was in ’n bedenklike toestand met baie ernstige kop- en inwendige beserings, het Botha gesê. Paramedici het haar op die toneel begin bybring en met haar na ’n hospitaal gejaag, maar sy is kort ná haar aankoms dood.

 

[Pitbull]

Fk me, it would have been sad if she died I would lose it if I was called to an accident scene and my wife is there after just dropping me off and she's in parts.

/prayers to her and the family

 

[Pitbull]

She passed away, you missed this part:

Mev. Harper het om een of ander rede nie soos gewoonlik hul kinders saamgevat toe sy haar man werk toe geneem het nie, het Botha gesê. “Anders was hulle dalk ook dood.”


“Dit was ’n verskriklike ondervinding. Ons is almal erg getraumatiseer,” het Mchunu die gevoelens by die brandweerstasie opgesom.


Volgens Budhram is ’n dossier van strafbare manslag aangelê, maar moet verklarings nog afgeneem word. Niemand is gearresteer nie. Wanneer die polisie-ondersoek afgehandel is, sal die dossier aan ’n staatsaanklaer voorgelê word vir ’n beslissing, het Budhram gesê

 

[Pitbull]

Sorry, I'm the one reading like my arse

 

[LazyLion]

wow... so sad. Prayers for him. Must be a living hell.

 

[cfvh600]

a very sad story. :-(

 

[The_Unbeliever]

Sad to hear that.

Driver skipped a red light, eh?

Next time I'm at an intersection, I'll wait a few seconds and make sure it's safe to drive off when the light goes green for me.

Too many people skipping red lights and making U-turns it's not funny anymore, it's downright scary.

 

[supersunbird]

a cash in transit van skipped a red light at speed and crashed into a Corsa bakkie, dragging it for 200m.

Yes, are you trying to agree with me that it was a far distance to push/drag another vehicle?

 

[PetrolHead]

200m is a very long distance to drag a ton of steel.

Our prayers go out to the Harper family

 

[kayvee]

From the local paper....

linky

 

[Kim_Webchick]

That is crazy reckless driving. Do people think that they the only one one the road

 

[tco21]

Sad indeed. Whatever happened to the implementation of stricter traffic laws? They really are needed.