Several people were injured after the driver of a bakkie, who was transporting another bakkie on the back of a trailer from Zimbabwe to Johannesburg, lost control in the Soutpansberg Mountain Pass on the N1 north just outside Louis Trichardt on Tuesday morning, 16 January. The injured passengers were rushed to Louis Trichardt Memorial Hospital.
Both bakkies were overloaded with passengers and their luggage, including the bakkie on the trailer.
According to one of the injured peo...