Driver describes screams, then silence, as bakkie crashed into river

“It happened as if in slow motion — there was screaming in the car, but just before we hit the water everything went silent.”

That was how the driver of the bakkie that plunged into the Swartkops River on Monday described the harrowing accident in which three British charity workers died...

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