Deadly Weekend Before Christmas As Road Crashes Claim 19 Lives

The carnage continues on South Africas roads as another crash has claimed multiple lives, this time in Limpopo.

Seven people were killed and many others injured in a multiple-vehicle pile-up on the N1 in Ga-Phasha, Botlokwa outside Polokwane. The crash involved seven vehicles including a taxi and a truck. The road has since been cleared and is open.

This incident comes after twelve people were killed in a collision between a minibus and a bakkie on the N2 outside Dutywa in the Eastern Cape.

Authorities say three other people were injured in the crash which happened last night.

This brings the road crash death toll in the two provinces to 19 in the past 24 hours.