Grocott's Mail

Woman dies in N2 horror

- STAFF REPORTER

Police are investigat­ing a case of culpable homicide after Bathurst resident Barbara Jean O’ Reilly, 65, was hit by a car on the N2, 40km east of Grahamstow­n last Sunday.

Police spokespers­on Captain Mali Govender said the tragedy occurred around 4.30pm Sunday 20 August. She and her husband had stopped op- posite the Frasers Camp shop.

“She was crossing the road, when she was hit by a car,” Govender said.

A friend who later arrived at the scene described it as horrendous.

The couple are tenants on his farm on the Port Alfred side of Bathurst. The driver of the vehicle, a white Golf, was arrested.

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