Eastern Cape police are investigating a case of culpable homicide after a runaway refuse collection truck hit four children, killing two of them.
The incident occurred at NU2 in Mdantsane on Friday afternoon.
Police spokesman Captain Mluleki Mbi said: "The truck apparently lost control and ploughed into four houses thereby killing two children - a four-year-old girl and a five-year-old boy," Mbi said.
Two other girls, both aged four, are being treated at Cecilia Makiwane Hospital.
The unidentified driver is in critical condition.
He works for a private refuse collection company in the township.
Eye witnesses told DispatchLIVE it was just after 5pm when they saw a truck with its head flipped, speeding down a street.
The four kids had been playing in front of their nanny's house.
"The driver was driving blind because the head of the truck was pointing down. He left the road and crashed into a residential wall and continued to plunge into the children before he was thrown out of the speeding truck," one resident said.
The resident said the truck finally rested inside the lounge of a four-roomed house where a three-month-old baby was sleeping. The baby survived unharmed.
Two kids killed, two others injured by runaway refuse truck
The incident occurred at NU2 in Mdantsane on Friday afternoon.
Police spokesman Captain Mluleki Mbi said: "The truck apparently lost control and ploughed into four houses thereby killing two children - a four-year-old girl and a five-year-old boy," Mbi said.
Two other girls, both aged four, are being treated at Cecilia Makiwane Hospital.
The unidentified driver is in critical condition.
He works for a private refuse collection company in the township.
Eye witnesses told DispatchLIVE it was just after 5pm when they saw a truck with its head flipped, speeding down a street.
The four kids had been playing in front of their nanny's house.
"The driver was driving blind because the head of the truck was pointing down. He left the road and crashed into a residential wall and continued to plunge into the children before he was thrown out of the speeding truck," one resident said.
The resident said the truck finally rested inside the lounge of a four-roomed house where a three-month-old baby was sleeping. The baby survived unharmed.
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