On Thursday 20 March 2025 from 16:20, the Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Police Department (EMPD) SpringsPrecinct Officers attended an accident that claimed the lives of two people at Springs area.
The officers received a call about an accident that occurred at Clydesdale Road in Springs, they then proceeded to the said place. On officers’ arrival they found other stakeholders and discovered a mortuary vehicle that was carrying a deceased burned with the driver still inside. The other deceased was found outside next to a big fallen tree. The paramedics declared the two people deceased on the spot, which is the driver and the passenger.
It is alleged that the mortuary vehicle came from fetching the body at the hospital, and it was asked by the passenger, which was the family of the deceased, to pass through where the deceased passed away in order to take his spirit. That was when the driver lost control and collided into a tree. All the necessary stakeholders were summoned.
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