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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.

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.“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 ZimbabweThere is a fatal accident involving a bus on the N1 North next to ingwe lodge, outside Louistrichardt. A bus overturned and unknown number of people are still stuck inside.

“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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