Fields Hill trucker due in court

Sanele May, whose truck ploughed into four vehicles at a busy intersection killing 24 people, has pleaded guilty to 31 charges. File picture: Puri Devjee

Sanele May, whose truck ploughed into four vehicles at a busy intersection killing 24 people, has pleaded guilty to 31 charges. File picture: Puri Devjee

Published Oct 24, 2014

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Johannesburg - The Swazi national whose lorry ploughed through a Pinetown intersection, killing 24 people, is expected to plead to 24 charges of culpable homicide in the Durban High Court on Friday.

On October 10, Sanele Goodness May made a brief appearance in court.

He had been expected to plead guilty to the charges, but prosecutor Alistair Walters told Judge Gregory Kruger that the director of public prosecutions still had to examine the plea agreement and sign it.

On the evening of September 5 last year, in rush-hour traffic, May's truck smashed into four minibus taxis and two cars at an intersection at the bottom of Fields Hill in Pinetown.

Twenty-two people were killed at the scene. Two died later in hospital.

May has been in custody ever since and was previously denied bail in the Pinetown Magistrate's Court.

Initially, he was charged with 24 counts of murder, but this was changed to 24 culpable homicide charges. - Sapa

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