Five people were killed in different car crashes in the North West over the Easter long weekend, provincial police said yesterday.
Four were killed in a head-on collision on Sunday at 10.30pm between Odi Hospital and Klipgat, Lt Col Lesego Metsi said.
This was after the driver of a Ford Meteor with five occupants allegedly drove in the face of oncoming traffic, leading to the head-on collision with an ambulance rushing from the opposite direction to pick up a patient in Klipgat.
The fifth passenger of the vehicle was admitted to hospital with serious injuries. No one was injured in the ambulance.
In the second accident, the driver of a VW Polo was killed when his vehicle collided head-on with a VW Golf outside Vryburg on Thursday night.
The driver who was killed was allegedly driving on the wrong side of the road when the collision happened. The other driver suffered serious injuries and was taken to the Vryburg Hospital. – Sapa
