Easter road death toll almost 30

TWO six-year-old boys were killed in a hit and run incident in Belville in Cape Town last night.

ER24 spokesman Werner Vermaak said that bystanders had seen a station wagon collide with the boys on the side of the road in Symphony Way at around 6.30pm.

Both boys died on the scene. Vermaak said paramedics could not find the driver of the vehicle and the matter was handed over to local police.

The victims were among nearly 30 people killed on South Africa’s roads since the start of the Easter weekend.

The Road Traffic Management Corporation has expressed “concern at the high number of crashes”.

Here are some of the accidents on the country’s roads since Thursday:

Five people were killed and 12 injured in an accident involving a minibus taxi outside Greytown in KwaZulu-Natal on Friday.

Three people were killed and four injured in a head-on collision on the N8 in Bloemfontein on Friday night;

Eight people died on Thursday when a vehicle caught fire between Makhado and Thohoyandou in Limpopo after the driver lost control;

Ten people died and five were injured when a truck collided with a minibus on the R707 between Petrus Steyn and Lindley in the Free State on Thursday; and

Nine people were injured when the taxi they were travelling in overturned on the R34 in Newcastle on Friday evening.

Traffic officials warned that roads such as the N1 freeway between Gauteng and Limpopo, the N2 between Somerset East and Cape Town, and the N3 between Johannesburg and Durban would experience higher than usual traffic volumes today and tomorrow as thousands of motorists head home after the Easter weekend.