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Road accidents kill nine
04 Aug 2015 at 11:59hrs | Views
One person was injured and five others escaped unharmed when their car veered off the road, overturned and caught fire at the 20km peg along the Gweru-Shurugwi highway on Sunday
NINE people, including the headmaster of Ndlovu Secondary School in Hwange, were killed in three separate road accidents that occurred in Bulawayo and Hwange.
Bulawayo Chief Fire Officer, Richard Peterson, confirmed two of the accidents that occurred within the metropolitan province and were attended to by the city's emergency services.
On Sunday evening three people died on the spot after a Toyota Hilux rammed into a Mazda 626 they were travelling in resulting in the Mazda overturning. The accident occurred along the Bulawayo-Plumtree road near Mbokodo Butchery.
Last Thursday, five people died, three of them on the spot at Hamara turn off, about 20 km from Bulawayo along the Bulawayo-Nyamandlovu Road when two trucks collided head on. The other person died on the way to hospital while another died upon arrival at Mpilo Central Hospital.
Peterson said in the Sunday accident involving the Mazda 626 and the Toyota Hilux truck, the Hilux driver was trying to overtake the Mazda vehicle which had indicated intention to turn right into the farms. The Toyota Hilux rammed into the Mazda 626 resulting in all the three people who were in the Mazda vehicle being thrown out. All the three died on the spot," said Peterson.
He said the driver of the Toyota Hilux truck which later rammed into a tree, escaped with minor bruises but his three passengers were seriously injured and were rushed to United Bulawayo Hospitals.
He said the Nyamandlovu accident that killed five people involved two trucks which collided head on at the 20km peg along the Bulawayo-Nyamandlovu road near Hamara turn-off.
He said the two trucks had a combined 11 people on board when the accident occurred.
The headmaster of Ndlovu Secondary School in Hwange District, Birthwell Ndlovu, who was involved in an accident on Monday last week, died last Friday, Ndlovu sustained serious injuries when the car he was travelling in burst a rear tyre, swerved and threw him out.
He was 54.
The accident occurred at the 40km peg along the Victoria Falls-Hwange Road near Khanondo Farm, in Hwange District when a vehicle driven by Roman Catholic Priest-in-charge of Our Lady Queen of Peace in Victoria Falls, Father Wisdom Simwinde, burst a rear tyre resulting in the rear doors opening and throwing Ndlovu out.
Ndlovu, a former headmaster at Lukosi High School in the same district, died on Friday at Mpilo Central Hospital where he was admitted after being transferred from Hwange Colliery Hospital.
His younger brother, Glenn, said the family was in shock and saddened by their loss.
Bulawayo Chief Fire Officer, Richard Peterson, confirmed two of the accidents that occurred within the metropolitan province and were attended to by the city's emergency services.
On Sunday evening three people died on the spot after a Toyota Hilux rammed into a Mazda 626 they were travelling in resulting in the Mazda overturning. The accident occurred along the Bulawayo-Plumtree road near Mbokodo Butchery.
Last Thursday, five people died, three of them on the spot at Hamara turn off, about 20 km from Bulawayo along the Bulawayo-Nyamandlovu Road when two trucks collided head on. The other person died on the way to hospital while another died upon arrival at Mpilo Central Hospital.
Peterson said in the Sunday accident involving the Mazda 626 and the Toyota Hilux truck, the Hilux driver was trying to overtake the Mazda vehicle which had indicated intention to turn right into the farms. The Toyota Hilux rammed into the Mazda 626 resulting in all the three people who were in the Mazda vehicle being thrown out. All the three died on the spot," said Peterson.
He said the driver of the Toyota Hilux truck which later rammed into a tree, escaped with minor bruises but his three passengers were seriously injured and were rushed to United Bulawayo Hospitals.
He said the two trucks had a combined 11 people on board when the accident occurred.
The headmaster of Ndlovu Secondary School in Hwange District, Birthwell Ndlovu, who was involved in an accident on Monday last week, died last Friday, Ndlovu sustained serious injuries when the car he was travelling in burst a rear tyre, swerved and threw him out.
He was 54.
The accident occurred at the 40km peg along the Victoria Falls-Hwange Road near Khanondo Farm, in Hwange District when a vehicle driven by Roman Catholic Priest-in-charge of Our Lady Queen of Peace in Victoria Falls, Father Wisdom Simwinde, burst a rear tyre resulting in the rear doors opening and throwing Ndlovu out.
Ndlovu, a former headmaster at Lukosi High School in the same district, died on Friday at Mpilo Central Hospital where he was admitted after being transferred from Hwange Colliery Hospital.
His younger brother, Glenn, said the family was in shock and saddened by their loss.
Source - chronicle
