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Dangerous hole put lives at risk

Motorists and pedestrians using Emarrentia Avenue near Parkwood Golf Course must exercise caution to avoid a dangerous hole on the sidewalk.

A worried resident Stephanie Joubert has alerted Gazette about the hole which lied bare without the manhole cover because it could potentially put people’s lives at risk.

Joubert told Gazette that she stepped onto a loose concrete cover and fell into the hole while walking on the sidewalk next to the golf course.

“My daughter and I undertook our annual trip to Parkview to collect pine cones for winter. Whilst walking on the sidewalk next to the golf course in Emmarentia Avenue, I stepped onto a loose concrete cover and fell into a hole. I think it is a storm water pipe covered by concrete blocks about 1.5 m by 1.5 and bigger. These blocks are covered by grass and therefore disguised,” she said.

A few metres from the open manhole there is a crumbling concrete and another dangerous hole.

She said, “I feel that it is my duty to bring under the attention of the residents of Parkview the safety or rather lack of safety of the sidewalk on Emmarentia avenue.”

“I luckily got minor bruises and managed to get out of the hole easily but it could have been very different as the hole is about two metre deep and the concrete blocks very heavy. I am surprised that the Johannesburg municipality did not attend to the problem yet, because some of the other blocks already gave way and I suspect that the rest are all loose and very dangerous,” she said.

Spokesman of Joburg Roads Agency Sam Modiba had not replied to emailed questions at the time of going to print.

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