By Stephens
MolobiWednesday, September 06, 2017 08:00
The scene in Brakpan where a boy crashed his father’s bike
into a bus. THE 17-year-old boy usually took the bus to school with his friends
but on Friday morning he decided to show off.The teenager took his father’s
motorbike and crashed into the bus as his friends were watching.Tragically, he
died on the scene
The sad incident on the corner of Station and Hastings
streets in Brakpan, Ekurhuleni left the boy’s friends traumatised.One moment
they were cheering him on as he prepared to do a trick, and the next he had
slammed into the bus.
Passengers in the bus looked on in horrified silence as his
body lay in the street.When paramedics arrived they did all they could, but it
was too late.They declared him dead.After being told the tragic news that their
schoolmate had not survived, pupils on the bus were told to get out.
Ekurhuleni Metro police spokesman Chief Superintendent
Wilfred Kgasago said the bus and the motorbike were towed from the scene.“The
vehicles were taken to the police pound for further investigation.“Our accident
reconstruction unit is working on the case,” he said.“The bus driver had to be
taken to Dalview Clinic to be treated for shock.“The police opened cases of
culpable homicide and reckless and negligent driving at the Brakpan Police
Station,” Kgasago said.
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