Daily Sun (August 11 2014) - IT WAS already a sad day for family members on their way to fetch the body of a loved one. But they would never get to their destination.
DEATH IN THE SHAPE OF A SPEEDING BAKKIE WAS CHARGING TOWARDS THEM.
Soon the mangled bodies of eight people would be scattered on the side of the D401 between Dwaarsloop and Thulamahashe, Mpumalanga.
"I could see the bakkie had failed to make the bend," said John Siwela (43) of Thulamahashe, near Bushbuckridge, who witnessed the crash between a Mahindra Bolero bakkie and a Toyota Verso.
"The Verso driver tried to avoid the Mahindra, but he couldn't. The two vehicles crashed head-on," John said. The convoy of four cars was on its way to meet a hearse carrying Enios Makukule's body at about 4.30pm on Saturday for burial the next day. The body was being transported from Nelspruit via Dwaarsloop to New Forest.
As the leading Verso, with six occupants, neared a bend in the road, a Mahindra Bolero coming from the other direction crossed from its lane at high speed.