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UPDATE: Driver apparently flees in taxi after fatal accident
Six children were found lying outside the vehicle
THE driver of the car which overturned in Benoni this morning, killing a teenager, apparently fled from the scene in a taxi.
Russel Meiring, ER24 spokesman, said eyewitnesses on the scene stated the driver tried to overtake a taxi and lost control of the vehicle. The car hit a tree and overturned, ejecting all six boys from the vehicle.
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” The driver then apparently climbed out of the vehicle, hailed a taxi and fled the scene,” Meiring said.
He said six children were found lying outside the vehicle. One was already dead.
The five other boys were assessed by paramedics. Two were fund to be in a critical condition while the other three had sustained moderate injuries.
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