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A man stands next to the white Toyota bakkie that was involved in an accident at the "Tshikota bad corner".
Another car accident on the "Tshikota bad corner"
News Date: 12 March 2012
The SAPS at Louis Trichardt have opened a case of reckless driving after a male driver lost control of his bakkie along the Tshikota-Kutama R522 road on Monday and capsised.
It seems that the man and his four passengers, including a three-year-old boy, were coming back from buying cabbages at one of the farms in the area and driving to Louis Trichardt, when he lost control of the vehicle. Cabbages spilled all over the road when the car rolled until it halted in the middle of the road.
All the occupants sustained minor injuries and were treated at the Louis Trichardt Memorial Hospital. They were all discharged on the same day.
The spokesperson for the Makhado police, Captain Maano Sadike, confirmed the case. “We advise people to drive with care on all our roads because lives are important,” said Captain Sadike. “Motorists must always be alert, so as not to put other people's lives in danger.”
Accidents of this nature happen regularly and exactly at this spot, infamously named “Tshikota bad corner” by motorists and residents of Tshikota township.
On the morning of 6 February, two officials of the Makhado Fire Brigade were driving along this road, when the driver lost control of the vehicle and it capsised, damaging the vehicle badly.
Written by
Tshifhiwa Mukwevho
Tshifhiwa Given Mukwevho was born in 1984 in Madombidzha village, not far from Louis Trichardt in the Limpopo Province. After submitting articles for roughly a year for Limpopo Mirror's youth supplement, Makoya, he started writing for the main newspaper. He is a prolific writer who published his first book, titled A Traumatic Revenge in 2011. It focusses on life on the street and how to survive amidst poverty. His second book titled The Violent Gestures of Life was published in 2014.
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