Fatigue cited as possible cause of the fatal crash on the N1 outside Louis Trichardt

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Fatigue has been cited as a possible cause of a fatal crash on the N1 outside Louis Trichardt in Limpopo which claimed the life of one person and injured over ten people on Saturday morning.

Authorities say a bus that was overloaded with goods lost control and overturned with its trailer.

The bus was enroute to the Beitbridge border post from Johannesburg.

Limpopo Transport spokesperson Mike Maringa says the bus driver is among those who were taken to hospital.

He says the road has been reopened to traffic.

“We can you confirm that the bus accident that you’ve seen here was caused mainly by fatigue. It was travelling from Gauteng to Beitbrige border post and further down to Zimbabwe

Meanwhile, some eyewitnesses say they are still traumatised as the crash happened so fast.

“Actually, I can’t say anything, was like from that side you see they say there is a stone there. The driver failed to control the bus so it hit up the stone until the bus fell. Actually, from the time I didn’t know what was actually happening, I was confused,” says a witness.

“We’re actually in the bus that was behind it. So it was speeding a little bit and it started breaking eventually when you started breaking over here. It went and it hit that. That rock over there. That’s when it’s the trailer then derailed. We’ve been stuck here for hours. Because that was that that actually happened around 12am,” says another witness.

 

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