Over the weekend, tragedy struck Wildnerness after a bus carrying 35 people rolled down an embankment, claiming the life of a two-year-old boy.
The bus was carrying rugby players and supporters of Excelsior rugby club from Wittedrift and Bitou, Plettenberg Bay on Saturday, 21 May. It was travelling from Saasveld before it lost control and veered down the embankment, as Sergeant Chris Spies stated. The crash took place at Heights Road between Wildnerness Village and Wildnerness Heights.
According to George Herald, the bus actually crashed into an abyss after going off-road and proceeded to ‘land’ on top of a residential home’s porch.
According to SABC News, twenty-nine people were hospitalised, five, however, made it out of the incident without injury.
Spies further said that the toddler had sustained severe injuries, and was declared dead at the scene by the paramedics, as per the Citizen.
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