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GEORGE NEWS - A church outing to Victoria Bay took a wild swing on Sunday 15 June, when a bakkie carrying at least 10 people allegedly suffered brake failure while coming down the hill.
What was meant to be a relaxing visit to the beach for the group from a Thembalethu church quickly erupted in chaos as the vehicle ploughed through a concrete bollard and crashed into the public showers near the beach, miraculously missing the restaurant.
According to the bakkie driver (29), who requested his name be withheld, the brakes on his bakkie failed as they were coming down the hill towards the beach.
“I tried to brake, but it was gone. We were going very fast, at a crazy speed, but I tried to keep the vehicle under control,” he said.
He says his first plan was to crash into the concrete bollards at the entrance on the lawn near the restaurant, but unfortunately, that didn’t quite work out the way he planned.
“I thought we would stop if I hit the bollard, but we didn’t. I then tried to control it so as not to hit the restaurant, and drove into the showers,” he told George Herald this week.
Without hitting any other vehicles or pedestrians, the bakkie crashed into the building, destroying it. No serious injuries or fatalities were reported.
The exact number of people inside the vehicle could not be confirmed yet.
Read more in Thursday's George Herald and online.
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