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The body of one of those killed is loaded in a state mortuary vehicle at the scene of the accident.

Gruesome accident claims two lives

 

On Saturday, 1 August, early morning users of the road between Shayandima industrial area and the traffic lights at Muledane had to use alternative roads to Thohoyandou and Tshakhuma as the road was closed for hours.

That was the result of an accident that involved three vehicles, two from the Thohoyandou side and one from the Tshakhuma side. The area where the accident happened is notoriously known for fatal accidents and as many as 15 people are believed to have perished in accidents at this stretch of road in recent years.

On Saturday morning, two people died at the scene and a driver of one of the cars was badly injured. The occupants of the two cars that collided head-on are said to have been going to attend a funeral.

The deceased are Mr Gilbert Makondelele (56), principal of a school at Nzhelele who stays at Tshakhuma, and Ms Florah Mudau (53), who stays at the nearby Itsani village.

The scene where the accident happened resembled a war zone, with mangled and twisted metals. A relative, who preferred anonymity, said they were going to attend a funeral but used different cars to go there. “We passed the scene as we were in a hurry to attend a relative's funeral. We saw the vehicles and one of the women then started crying, saying it looked like her husband’s car. When we reached the funeral, we could not locate the man and when we called his phone, it was off. That was when we rushed to the scene to find him slumped in one of the cars."

Thohoyandou police spokesperson Const Avhafarei Tshiovhe said they had opened a culpable homicide docket.

The scene of the gruesome accident that claimed two lives.

 

Date:13 August 2015

By: Elmon Tshikhudo

Elmon Tshikhudo started off as a photographer. He developed an interest in writing and started submitting articles to local as well as national publications. He became part of the Limpopo Mirror family in 2005 and was a permanent part of the news team until 2019.

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