The spot where Jolidee Matongo died is notorious for the number of pedestrians who have lost their lives, and warning signs mark it as a High Accident Zone.
A warning sign next to the spot where ate Johannesburg mayor, Jolidee Matongo's vehicle collided with a van while trying to avoid a pedestrian along the Golden Highway near Vlakfontein. 20 September 2021. Picture: Nigel Sibanda
The section of the road where Matongo and a 23-year-old Lenasia motorist died on Saturday night is marked with several ‘High Accident Zone’ signs.“A week hardly passes without a fatal accident here. On Sunday I got off a taxi around 6am and there was a horrific accident. It was chaos when I arrived, people were being air-lifted to hospital and emergency services workers were freeing victims trapped in the wreckage,” Chris Adams told The Citizen on Monday afternoon.
Adams said when he arrived at the carnage, he was not even aware that the city’s first citizen had perished nearby the previous evening. The Citizen’s own photographer Nigel Sibanda almost ran over a pedestrian who appeared from nowhere and had to be avoided second as he wandered across the road. He said earlier this year, a woman and two children were mowed down by a truck as they waited to cross the road.
Johannesburg Metropolitan Police Department spokesperson Wayne Minnaar, confirmed that the stretch of the road had claimed countless lives before, mostly pedestrians.
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