Cape Town - Three men in a large truck were decapitated when they ploughed into the garage of a home in Fresnaye on Tuesday.
On Wednesday morning the yellow truck was still stuck in the garage of the residence in St Avenue Denis, and there were also still bloodstains on top of the garage door above the jammed truck.
Police were still at the scene.
The truck may have been coming from a construction site because it appeared to be full bricks from a demolished building.
The truck belongs to Benchmark Carriers, a rubble, waste, sand and stone movers company.
Nkululeko Kandisa, who works next door to the residence, was one of the first people on the scene on Tuesday afternoon.
“All I heard was a bang and when I went to check I saw dust all over the garage next door,” he said.
Kandisa said he heard the loud bang at about 3pm, and believes that the driver might have lost control of the truck because the road he was driving on is straight and flat.
Western Cape Health Department spokesman Robert Daniels said on Wednesday morning that the three men had been “decapitated”.
ER24 spokesman Russel Meiring said the three men had been killed after their truck crashed into a residence.
“When our paramedics arrived on the scene shortly after 3pm they found a large dump truck wedged in a garage of a residence. Paramedics found three lifeless bodies lying inside the front cab of the truck. Unfortunately all three men had already succumbed to their multiple fatal injuries.”
Meiring said the cause of the collision was not yet known but local authorities were on scene for further investigations.
When contacted by the Cape Argus, the owner of the truck said he didn't want to talk to the media.
Police spokesman Captain FC van Wyk confirmed the accident.
“Three persons were fatally injured during this accident. A culpable homicide case was opened for investigation.”
City traffic spokesman Richard Coleman said that in another incident on Wednesday morning a bus and two trucks collided on the N1 outgoing near Durban Road. The driver of the bus and a truck driver and passenger were trapped.
Cape Argus