A total of 19 children and two adults were killed in South Africa after a truck collided head on with a pick up truck carrying students from local schools on Friday, according to the KwaZulu-Natal Department of Transport.
The accident took place in Pongola in eastern South Africa on national route N2 after a truck driver sped and overtook another vehicle on a double barrier line,"clearly violating all possible traffic regulations," the department said on Facebook, describing circulating video of the incident.
"We extend our deepest condolences, to the families of the deceased," Sipho Hlomuka, a member of the executive council for transport community safety and liaison, said in a."We are deeply disturbed by this fatal accident. The death of so many young lives is too painful."
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