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Horror accident leaves 5 dead

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FIVE people died on the spot, while eight others were seriously injured in a head-on collision involving a commuter omnibus and a Volkswagen Passat along the Harare-Mutare highway yesterday morning.

FIVE people died on the spot, while eight others were seriously injured in a head-on collision involving a commuter omnibus and a Volkswagen Passat along the Harare-Mutare highway yesterday morning.

By Phyllis Mbanje

The accident occurred a few kilometres from the Marondera tollgate.

National police spokesperson Senior Assistant Commissioner Charity Charamba confirmed the accident, saying the collision occurred a few kilometres from the Marondera tollgate when the Harare-bound commuter omnibus burst its tyre and encroached into the lane of the Passat.

Five people perished in a head-on collision involving a commuter omnibus and a Volkswagen Passat along Harare-Mutare Road yesterday morning just after the Goromonzi turn-off. Eye witnesses said the commuter omnibus driver lost control of the vehicle after a tyre burst before encroaching into the opposite lane resulting in the collision.
Five people perished in a head-on collision involving a commuter omnibus and a Volkswagen Passat along Harare-Mutare Road yesterday morning just after the Goromonzi turn-off. Eye witnesses said the commuter omnibus driver lost control of the vehicle after a tyre burst before encroaching into the opposite lane resulting in the collision.

“Five people, all female, died while eight others were injured including the driver of the Passat,” she said.

The injured passengers were taken to Parirenyatwa and Marondera hospitals.

Witnesses said all three female passengers in the Passat died on the spot, while the driver, identified as Tanyanyisa Marange, was injured.

“When we asked him (Marange) what had happened, he was still in shock and could not explain the circumstances,” a relative Stanley Madaga said.

Two elderly women from the commuter omnibus also died, while seven others were injured. By the time the fire brigade arrived at the scene, most of the passengers in the commuter omnibus had already been rescued with the exception of a female passenger who was still trapped in the wreckage of the Passat.