Police have opened a culpable homicide and negligent driving after three people died while five others sustained injuries following a multiple-vehicle collision on the R63 road near Debe Nek just outside Qonce towards Alice on Tuesday.
Preliminary report indicates that two of the vehicles (bakkies) were travelling in the same direction. One Toyota bakkie, carrying two Fidelity security crew members, was travelling from Middledrift. The second Toyota bakkie, transporting three male occupants and loaded with livestock, was also travelling from Middledrift. The Toyota Corolla, with two occupants, was travelling from Qonce.
Three male occupants from the Toyota bakkie transporting livestock sustained fatal injuries.
The four injured occupants from the Fidelity security bakkie and the two occupants from the Toyota Corolla sustained various injuries and were transported to Grey Hospital in Qonce for further medical treatment.
A case of culpable homicide has been registered.
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