NATIONAL NEWS - A mother and daughter died in an accident in Cape Town on Friday morning, when a mini-bus taxi collided with their car outside Bellville High School, Western Cape paramedics said.
ER24 spokesman Andre Visser said the taxi smashed into the front end of a Fiat, leaving it "obliterated".
The taxi then overturned and was lying on its right hand side.
"A mother and daughter were the only occupants in the Fiat at the time of the collision. Both sustained severe injuries and were later declared dead at the scene. "
An occupant of the taxi was transported to hospital in a serious condition. Seventeen others were treated for minor injuries, before being transport to other hospitals in the area, Visser said.
Source : Sapa
Mother and daughter die in Cape Town accident
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Posted on: 11:30 Fri, 24 June 2011
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