The police are trying to piece together the horrific crash scene on Johannesburg's Golden Highway where the newly elected mayor died on Saturday.
Accident scene investigators are looking at speed and whether an unidentified pedestrian, who died at the crash site, forced drivers to take evasive actionNewly elected Johannesburg mayor Jolidee Matongo died in a car crash on September 18 2021. File photo.The police are trying to piece together the horrific crash scene on Johannesburg’s Golden Highway where newly elected mayorKey to the investigation is an unidentified pedestrian and a 23-year-old Lenasia motorist who also died in the accident.
Matongo was returning home on Saturday night after a door-to-door election campaign with President Cyril Ramaphosa when the BMW X5 in which he was travelling collided with another vehicle.Crucial to the investigation, said a police source, is the pedestrian. “At this stage the theory is the pedestrian was trying to cross the highway when one of the vehicles swerved to avoid him. It’s not known whether it was the mayor’s driver who tried to avoid the pedestrian or the other driver.”
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