Overloaded truck impounded after being found with more than 106 corpses
Traffic authorities discovered a truck carrying 106 corpses during a routine stop and search operation along the N2 highway near Somerset West.
The Western Cape’s Transport and Public Works MEC Daylin Mitchell has confirmed that the truck was overloaded.
“I was advised that the necessary paperwork was in place. The truck was overloaded, and the undertaker then dispatched an additional vehicle, and the driver was then allowed to continue with the trip.”
The weighbridge was temporarily closed after the driver confirmed that he was transporting dead bodies to a crematory in Gqeberha, Eastern Cape on Saturday afternoon.
According to IOL Spokesperson Fredelene Knowles said the funeral undertakers were compelled to move the bodies to Gqeberha as the local crematoriums were either closed or could not cope with the large volumes.
Knowles added that families are now opting for cremation as a result of the high costs of keeping a corpse at the morgue. She further added that getting a site is also a mission. “It’s difficult – we have to phone around for space,” said funeral undertaker, Monray Adams.
Overloaded truck impounded after being found with more than 106 corpses
As mysterious as can be, the provincial department of health wondered if the deaths were Covid-19 related. They are yet to determine the causes of death.
“We are allowing our teams to do their work and will communicate once completed”, said EMS & FPS Provincial Spokesperson/Communications Specialist at Western Cape Government Department of Health, Deanna February.
However, it was recently reported that a South African couple dies in VW crash after getting Twitter death wishes on Valentine’s. Social media being a cruel place wishes death on a couple that gifts each other a Volkswagen on Valentine and it has come to pass. Announcing on radio, Nkomazi FM breaks the news leaving a lot of people wondering if this incident is a coincidence.
In a post that tweeps regard as a death wish, one user posts, “VW early ticket to death, I guess the poor guy is tired of that chick shem.” Some however relate the whole ordeal to reckless driving rather than witchcraft and death wishes. Weighing in on the matter, masses flock to the comment section.
The guy is not umthakhathi VW Polo and Golf drivers have small minds, poverty mind, they want to prove a point on the roads with their tin can cars.
People must just drive responsibly, adhere to road traffic regulations. May their departed souls rest in peace, this is very tragic.