Six Year Olds Dad Dies in Crash

According to bystanders, and Isuzu Bakkie was travelling at considerably high speed on Koeberg road at the intersection of Carson street in Durbanville. They also said that the driver seemed to be driving recklessly, and he was not keeping to his side of the single lane carriageway.

In the bakkie were five people; the male driver in his fourties, his six year old daughter who was sitting in the back under the canopy, and another three adults including one woman.

An old shape Volkswagen Beetle was travelling in the other direction when they were collided with head on by the bakkie. The Beetle was mangled, but luckily the three male occupants in their thirties were not seriously harmed. Two of them were complaining of back and neck pain, while the third explained that he was experiencing a pins and needles like sensation in his lower limbs. All three were stabilised on scene and transported to local hospitals for further treatment.

After the massive impact, the bakkie allegedly rolled, ejecting the driver through his right drivers window. As he lay on the ground with critical injuries, the bakkie come to a stop on top of him. Towing services and Fire and Rescue workers immediately began the of removing the vehicle from on top of him. Once the man was revealed, he was assessed by paramedics, and was found to have sustained multiple fatal injuries and was pronounced deceased.

The bakkies canopy was badly deformed and came off the bakkie when it began to roll, but fortunately the six year old girl sustained no physical injuries. ER24 paramedics said that she was not crying, but her eyes showed the trauma that she had experienced. They took her to the ambulance to treat her for shock, and to prevent her from seeing her fathers' mangled body, rather awaiting a more stable environment at the hospital, and perhaps councilors to explain to her what exactly had taken place.

A woman who was also in the bakkie sustained moderate injuries, and also a large amount of skin loss to her arm. She and the two other gentlemen in the bakkie were transported to hospital.

The Durbanville SAPS will handle the investigation into the exact cause of the incident.