Three friends die in horror accident

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CRASH SCENE: The wreckage of the two-seater Audi R8 sports car in which three friends were killed
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Bodies flung 40m after high-speed crash on M4 freeway

A horror accident that claimed the lives of a popular Port Elizabeth chef and two friends when the sports car they were travelling in crashed off the M4 freeway, through barriers and onto railway tracks, has devastated family and friends.

Grass Roof chef Hilton Crous, 27, his friend Jarryd Athol McKinnon, 26, and another friend, Philip Weyer-Henderson, 50, were in a two-seater Audi R8 sports car when it smashed into the pavement adjacent to the M4 near the Mount Road off-ramp at about 8pm on Sunday.

The men’s bodies were found between 30m and 40m from the mangled wreckage of the high-performance car, which had been travelling towards Summerstrand at the time of the crash.

All three are past pupils of Grey High School.

Weyer-Henderson, a Jansenville stock farmer, came originally from the Somerset East area; McKinnon was from Port Elizabeth, while Jeffreys Bay-born Crous was a chef at the popular Grass Roof restaurant and farm stall in Sardinia Bay.

Past pupils of Grey High and Grass Roof management posted messages of condolence on their Facebook pages yesterday.