As family and friends gathered at the home of the late Joburg mayor Jolidee Matongo, who died in a crash on the Golden Highway on Saturday night, another family was also picking up the pieces of a life lost in the fatal accident that killed three people.
The horrific crash on the Golden Highway near Soweto on Sunday evening claimed the lives of Matongo, 46, Lenasia electrician Sagel Singh, 23, and a still unidentified pedestrian.
It is alleged that the crash was sparked by a pedestrian who tried to run across the highway. There was a swerving of two vehicles — Matongo’s BMW X5 and a bakkie driven by Singh — and then a crash. The pedestrian, Matongo and Singh all died on the scene while Matongo’s two colleagues were pulled from the wreckage.In happier times: Sagel, Sheridon and Nazlee Singh. Sagel was killed in a fatal crash which also claimed the lives of Joburg mayor Jolidee Matongo and an unidentified pedestrian.
“That evening the CPF reached out to us and told us about the accident. When they described the bakkie to me, I knew it was Sagel because he was supposed to have been home already.”
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