15 killed in head-on road crash in S Africa

By AFP
May 05, 2025
A general view image of the closed N12 highway as paramedics and emergency service personnel work on the scene. —AFP/File
A general view image of the closed N12 highway as paramedics and emergency service personnel work on the scene. —AFP/File

JOHANNESBURG: A night-time collision between a packed minibus taxi and a pick-up truck has killed 15 people in rural South Africa, a transport official said on Sunday.

Five people were in hospital with serious injuries after the crash at around midnight on Saturday to Sunday near the Eastern Cape town of Maqoma, about 1,000-kms south of Johannesburg, provincial transport spokesman Unathi Binqose official told broadcaster Newzroom Afrika. The drivers of both vehicles were among the dead and an inquest would be opened to determine what happened, Binqose said.