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Man killed in Cape Town highway crash

A man was killed and six others seriously injured when the vehicle they were travelling in lost control on the N1 near Bellville in Cape Town on Saturday afternoon. The vehicle crashed into the barrier near the Jip de Jager offramp, said Cape Town traffic spokesperson Maxine Jordaan. Officials closed[…]

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5 killed in Cape Town plane crash

Five people, including a patient, were killed when a medical plane crashed in the Plattekloof area in Cape Town on Sunday morning, emergency services said. The plane, that was coming from Namibia, went missing off the radar at 06:50 on Sunday morning, spokesperson Mark van der Heever told News24. “The[…]

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Woman killed in Cape Town highway crash

A woman was killed and two other passengers were injured in a fatal crash on Cape Town’s M5 on Thursday evening, with emergency workers only managing to finish clearing the scene early on Friday morning. Western Cape traffic spokesperson Kenny Africa said the accident was just before midnight on Thursday[…]

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Truck crash causes traffic nightmare on N2

A truck crash on the N2 leaving the Cape Town CBD on Friday morning caused a major traffic back-up. The truck jack-knifed on Hospital Bend and spilled diesel on the road, said Cape Town traffic spokesperson Maxine Jordaan. Traffic had been diverted to Main Road, said Jordaan. The wet weather[…]

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Woman killed as car crashes into shop

A woman in her 30s has died after the vehicle in which she was travelling crashed into a shop front in Claremont in the early hours of Friday morning. “We think it was a furniture shop. Most of those shops there all are windows [have window fronts]. The car collided[…]

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Car chase ends on Muizenberg beach

A high speed car chase ended in a crash on Muizenberg beach and the arrest of three men – all thanks to a cellphone tracker. The suspects appeared in the Muizenberg Magistrate’s Court on Tuesday on charges of robbery and possession of stolen goods after a Muizenberg man was robbed[…]

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Joburg train crash: Transport minister wants answers

Transport Minister Dipuo Peters on Tuesday called for answers into the cause of the train crash in Johannesburg that killed a woman Metrorail employee. “As government… we need Prasa to give answers as to how a moving train can crash into a stationary one,” she told reporters at the Denver[…]

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Germanwings co-pilot accelerated aircraft on descent

The second black box recovered from the wreckage of Germanwings flight 4U9525 shows that the co-pilot accelerated the aircraft as it descended into the Alps, French aviation officials said Friday. French aviation authority BEA also said that the flight data recorder confirms that Andreas Lubitz changed the autopilot to lower[…]

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