JOHANNESBURG, Twenty-five people died Monday when a bus rolled down an embankment in South Africa’s coastal Eastern Cape province, the country’s transport minister said.<\/P>
Reports indicate that the driver lost control of the bus, which<\/P>
subsequently rolled down a steep embankment, leaving 25 dead and<\/P>
approximately 62 injured, Fikile Mbalula said in a statement.<\/P>
To lose so many lives in a single accident is devastating and shocking.<\/P>
The bus was carrying over 80 mainly elderly people to the town centre in<\/P>
Butterworth, provincial transport department spokesman, Unathi Binqose, said.<\/P>
The driver lost control of the vehicle and it rolled down a very steep<\/P>
embankment, Binqose said, adding that the driver figured among the dead.<\/P>
The crash was the deadliest accident in the province since 2015 when 35<\/P>
people lost their lives.<\/P>
Binqose said checks would be carried out if the bus had been roadworthy as<\/P>
it may be a contributing factor.<\/P>
South Africa has among the highest rate of road accidents in the region<\/P>
owing to speeding and poor maintenance of some vehicles and roads.<\/P>
The Road Traffic Management Corporation (RTMC) data shows over 14,000<\/P>
people died in road crashes on South African roads in 2017.<\/P>
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Source: Nam News Network<\/P>
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