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October 17, 2014
Highway carnage on N3 >> Brake failure cause of accident? JEFF WICKS
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HE horror N3 smash that claimed the life of a truck driver and left several others badly injured on the morning of Wednesday, 8 October may have been caused by failed brakes.
An out-of-control water tanker careened through an existing accident scene after “the brakes stopped working”. This is according to the driver’s wife who emerged from the accident unscathed. The woman, who refused to give
her name, told police at the scene her husband had made “every effort” to negotiate past the scene, but that his brakes failed. “The brakes stopped working and then we hit into the other truck,” she said. The crash, which closed the N3 in
both directions for hours, comes at the beginning of “Transport Month”, an initiative aimed at curbing the thousands of road deaths annually in South Africa. The collision also came just a day after Transport MEC Willies Mchunu unveiled a sign on Field’s Hill nearby,
after last year’s bloody truck crash that saw 24 people killed. The water tanker had come to rest at the foot of a steep embankment; its driver flung from it while it trundled down the hill.
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Zuma celebrates at 1000 Hills FEVER REPORTER PRESIDENT Jacob Zuma’s daughter Nqobile Zuma held her seventh birthday party at Valley of 1000 Hill’s Phezulu Safari Park recently. The birthday girl and her friends were treated to a tour of the reptile park before taking an hour game drive down into the Valley where they came into close quarters with giraffe, zebra, blesbuck and wildebeest. After the game drive, Nqobile was joined by her father when they enjoyed an afternoon dance show by the
Phezulu dancers overlooking the picturesque Valley of 1000 Hills as the sun started to set. They then enjoyed the exclusivity and security of the park after closing time to share a meal. Jacob Zuma surprised all the tourists who were also in the Zulu dance show and took pictures with some of the visitors. Nqobile Zuma and her father presi dent Jacob Zuma, centre, seen with the Zulu dancers of Phezulu Safari Park. PHOTO: SUPPLIED
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We reserve the right to limit quantities. Prices include VAT. No traders please.