A three-year-old boy escaped from the mangled wreckage of a taxi in which two people lay dead and 14 others injured and walked to the N2 road to alert a motorist to an accident.
Moments earlier the taxi had been travelling from King William’s Town to East London.
It lost control and plunged into dense bush alongside the N2.
The accident occurred on a sharp curve 800m from the Amalinda off-ramp at 11am. It was carrying 15 passengers when it crashed.
Officials on the scene said other motorists were alerted to the scene when the child was spotted wandering around the busy road unguarded.
Emergency officials on the scene said concerned motorists had stopped and questioning the boy, who then pointed in the direction where the taxi lay.
Paramedics quickly arrived and cordoned off the road, diverting traffic travelling towards East London onto the Nahoon Dam off-ramp.
The injured victims were rushed to Frere Hospital where they were treated for various injuries.
Mboniso Rasi of the Mdantsane East London Taxi Association said the cause of the accident was unknown.
“The driver was of those people taken to hospital. He was not seriously injured,” Rasi said.
A case of culpable homicide was opened at the Cambridge police station. — zwangam@dispatch.co.za
Boy, 3, alerts motorists to taxi accident
Moments earlier the taxi had been travelling from King William’s Town to East London.
It lost control and plunged into dense bush alongside the N2.
The accident occurred on a sharp curve 800m from the Amalinda off-ramp at 11am. It was carrying 15 passengers when it crashed.
Officials on the scene said other motorists were alerted to the scene when the child was spotted wandering around the busy road unguarded.
Emergency officials on the scene said concerned motorists had stopped and questioning the boy, who then pointed in the direction where the taxi lay.
Paramedics quickly arrived and cordoned off the road, diverting traffic travelling towards East London onto the Nahoon Dam off-ramp.
The injured victims were rushed to Frere Hospital where they were treated for various injuries.
Mboniso Rasi of the Mdantsane East London Taxi Association said the cause of the accident was unknown.
“The driver was of those people taken to hospital. He was not seriously injured,” Rasi said.
A case of culpable homicide was opened at the Cambridge police station. — zwangam@dispatch.co.za
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