One dead, 44 pupils injured in taxi crash
One person has died while
44 pupils cramped inside a minibus taxi were left injured in a secondary
collision along Old Inanda Road near Verulam on Wednesday.
It's understood the school transport vehicle crashed into a stationary bakkie that had stopped on the emergency lane to contact authorities over a pedestrian that was killed in a hit-and-run incident.
The overloaded minibus veered onto oncoming traffic and struck a pedestrian before it came to a stop.
Reaction Unit SA's Prem Balram says among those treated was a seven-year-old girl with critical injuries.
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"When paramedics and Reaction officers got to the scene they found the pedestrian had demised. He had been knocked down by a bakkie, it stopped on the side of the road and then a taxi that was passing collided with the stationery vehicle.
“There were 44 children that were overloaded in the taxi and several of them had to be transported to a local hospital for injuries sustained at the collision."
