TWO KILLED IN JOBURG ACCIDENT.
Two people, one of them a soldier, were killed in an accident involving three vehicles in Lenasia, south of Johannesburg on Friday, emergency services said.
Spokesman Malcolm Midgley said a military vehicle allegedly skipped a red traffic light on the corners of Nirvana and Flamingo streets around 6.30am and collided with a BMW.
The military vehicle, a light truck, was launched into the air on impact and struck the windscreen of a heavier truck before hitting a pedestrian.
The driver and passenger of the military truck, a man and a woman, were killed on impact, while the pedestrian was critically injured. The people in the other vehicles were not harmed.
Midgley said according to the SA National Defence Force the truck was from Dunottar on the East Rand and was en route to Bloemfontein. It was not immediately clear if the woman was an SANDF employee. She wore a military jacket over civilian clothes. Midgley said it was also not clear what the truck was doing in Lenasia. Both victims were in their 20s.
The injured pedestrian was taken to the Chris Hani-Baragwanath hospital in Soweto.
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