WATCH | Five dead, 15 injured as truck skips red light and crashes into taxi

[schumi]

A fatal accident occurred on Sutherland Street in Mthatha in the Eastern Cape in the early hours of Wednesday.

A tipper truck skipped a red light and crashed into a minibus transporting 20 street hawkers from Durban to Port Elizabeth.

Five people died in the crash and 15 were hurt. Of the 15 injured, nine have been cleared to go home.

More at : https://www.timeslive.co.za/news/so...-truck-skips-red-light-and-crashes-into-taxi/

 

[Dan C]

Looks like a cellphone video.

 

[namzsteve]

Bad bad driving from the truck driver.

Condolences to the affected families

 

[ToxicBunny]

As horrendous as this is... The truck driver learnt from the taxis... Just put on your hazards and you can do whatever you want.

 

[nightjar]

Unusual when a taxi is blameless

 

[Scooby_Doo]

Unusual when a taxi is blameless

Hazards indicating brake failure? Maybe? I know I am reaching.

 

[ForceFate]

It's by some miracle that this doesn't happen daily.

RIP and condolences
Speedy recovery to the injured

 

[hungrymamba]

Truck brakes may have failed... RIP...

 

[Pineapple Smurf]

Looks like a cellphone video.

people do not know how to pull off CCTV footage on replay so they often use their cellphones Idiots

 

[Magnum]

people do not know how to pull off CCTV footage on replay so they often use their cellphones Idiots

Or people doing it illegally....

 

[maumau]

Makes me sick how often this sort of thing happens, yeah, yeah, brakes failed........ again? Right!

Condolences to those who loved the deceased.

 

[Stokstert]

It looks like the taxi was also speeding as it deflected the heavy truck from its lane.

 

[supersunbird]

Hope truck driver sits in jail for a decade

 

[CAPS LOCK]

Hope truck driver sits in jail for a decade

The fields hill tragedy, Sanele May was sentenced to 10 years. And he experienced genuine brake failure and runaway truck.


The footage here. The truck driver makes zero attempt to serve away. Nothing, the steering and vehicle remained arrow-straight until impact.

The driver did not as much as even glance towards the left direction.

If he was labouring with some mechanical issue, he would have anticipated the possibility of traffic in his hightened state of alertness, seen the oncoming taxi and swerved, even if only for a moment, to try avoid it. But nothing.

I hope 3 decades.

 

[Dan C]

people do not know how to pull off CCTV footage on replay so they often use their cellphones Idiots

Whenever I see Timeslive , I just normally ignore the article.

 

[santaman202]

If the trucks brakes failed then it shouldn't be on the road, brakes don't just fail. Poorly maintained vehicle, hopefully the transport company is charged, makes me sick

 

[isie]

Hazards indicating brake failure? Maybe? I know I am reaching.

pretty brake lights will still work if brakes 'failed'

there are other ways to slow down a vehicle, this guy doesn't look like he was even trying

If the trucks brakes failed then it shouldn't be on the road, brakes don't just fail. Poorly maintained vehicle, hopefully the transport company is charged, makes me sick

^this too

 

[CAPS LOCK]

If the trucks brakes failed then it shouldn't be on the road, brakes don't just fail. Poorly maintained vehicle, hopefully the transport company is charged, makes me sick

Doubt brake failure. That road is pretty much flat and very long.... as is most of the town. The speed of that vehicle was encouraged by the human intentionally pressing on its loud pedal.

 

[Jabulani22]

Why would you risk other peoples lives by guiding your truck into intersections (assuming brake failure) , man up and flip that trukker , less death on your conscience or a ticket to valhalla for you.

 

[thestaggy]

Lately I don't know who is worse; taxi drivers, bus drivers or truck drivers.

This morning, whilst I was doing 80 km/h in an 80 km/h zone, a bus rocketed past me in the left lane and weaved in to the middle lane without indicating. He continued to accelerate away from me at a good speed so my guess is he was easily doing 100 km/h. In an 80 zone. In Monday morning traffic. If the muppet lost control or had brake failure he'd cause a mess. Fvcking idiot.