ESWADE MANAGER KILLED IN HORROR CRASH
MANZINI – The road carnage continues to claim lives of the citizenry as a manager of Eswatini Water and Agricultural Development Enterprise (ESWADE) lost his life yesterday.
The accident happened along the Siphofaneni-Big Bend road next to Tambuti.
According to impeccable sources, the accident happened yesterday, just after 2pm.
It is said the manager, along with a passenger, were travelling in a white Isuzu bakkie.
Truck
The manager lost control of the vehicle and hit a truck that was ferrying crush stones on the side. Following this impact, according to eyewitnesses, the truck dragged the Isuzu bakkie with it as it skidded off the road.
Both vehicles are said to have skidded a distance in excess of 100 metres from the spot of impact which led to both motor vehicles overturning.
It is said when good Samaritans tried to assist the occupants of both vehicles and pulled them out, the passenger of the Isuzu bakkie was critically injured while the driver did not survive the impact. Also, the driver of the truck was discovered critically injured.
Hospital
They are said to have been rushed to the nearest hospital where the manager was certified dead while the other two were admitted.
Sam Sithole, Chief Executive Officer of ESWADE said: “As per the information given to me by the police I found on the scene of the accident, I can confirm that one of ours died.”
When he was contacted yesterday, at about 7:30pm, Sithole said he was enroute to report the sad news to the family of the deceased.
He said details of what transpired during the accident were still scanty.
Meanwhile, the ESWADE manager is the second senior personnel in a government parastatal to lose life in recent weeks.
On April 26, 2019 Phumelela Shongwe, who was a General Manager at the Eswatini Posts and Telecommunications Corporation (EPTC), died in a tragic car accident in Middelburg, South Africa.
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