Kzn Police Probe Woman's Death After Battery Crashes Through Windscreen

Police in KwaZulu-Natal are investigating the circumstances around an incident that claimed the life of a woman at the weekend.

It is believed that Madhumathie Bunwarie had been travelling back to Pietermaritzburg after attending a family funeral on Sunday, when tragedy struck.

It is alleged that a car battery crashed through the cars windscreen as the family was travelling along the N3 highway, near the Pavilion shopping centre.

It hit Bunwarie in the face. She died moments later.

She was with her husband brother-in-law and niece in the vehicle.