Family who lost 4 children in Carletonville crash says transport was not safe
The Hlalela family said that buckets and tins were being used as makeshift car seats in the vehicle.
The site of multi-car collision in the Kokosi-Wedela area in Merafong on 10 July 2024, in which 13 people were killed. Picture: Mongezi Koko/EWN
JOHANNESBURG - Relatives of some of the 11 pupils who died in Wednesday’s horrific crash in Carletonville, said that the children were being transported in a vehicle that was not conducive or safe.
Four of the children were from one family.
The Hlalela family said that buckets and tins were being used as makeshift car seats in the vehicle.
Twelve people died when a bakkie hit the school taxi.
The driver was among the dead.
On Wednesday, investigators probing the deadly accident said that the minibus taxi was roadworthy.
But relatives of four of the children who lost their lives, cousins, Hlompho, Reneilwe, Thato and Sihle Hlalele, said that they experienced something else.
“It’s a taxi transporting children, yet it doesn’t have the right seats, it’s just buckets and tins" said Uncle Aviva Manqa.
Meanwhile, DNA testing to identify the other victims will begin Friday morning.