High accident toll over weekend
Three die and several others injured in spate of accidents.
At least six accidents in which three people died were recorded near Ermelo over the past weekend.
On Friday afternoon a family of four was lucky to escape without injury when the vehicle they were travelling in collided with a tractor on the road between Ermelo and Amersfoort
Later that evening three more accidents occurred on the road between Ermelo and Piet Retief. In the first accident, three people were injured when the bakkie they were travelling in overturned after the driver lost control of his vehicle.
Later, five people were injured in a head-on crash on the same road and soon afterwards one person died and another one was seriously injured when the vehicle they were travelling in left the road and overturned.
On Saturday morning two people died and another three were injured in a head-on crash on the road between Ermelo and Hendrina.
