Wednesday, 6 September 2017

PUPIL’S JOYRIDE ENDS IN DEATH!

                       
  
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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