A police officer and three soldiers were hospitalized on Saturday after a police van, they were travelling in overturned on Orinocco Road near Bushbuckridge in Mpumalanga.
Their vehicle is said to have lost control when a police officer stationed at Acornhoek Station was chasing after a suspicious car that drove past them.
According to witnesses, they spotted a speeding sedan being chased by a police van and in split seconds they heard a loud bang.
“We saw the sedan speeding past us like a bullet and we realized they were being chased by the cops. Suddenly we heard a loud bang along the road and we saw the police van lying upside down with wheels still running. Three soldiers and a cop were seriously injured,” said the witnesses.
They further said the suspicious vehicle managed to vanish into thin air after the accident.
Police spokesman Brigadier Vishnu Naidoo confirmed the incident. He said a Constable was driving a police vehicle when the accident happened. Two vans were pursuing a suspicious vehicle after they received a tip-off about it. The police then requested neighbouring stations to assist.
One of the police vans lost control on the gravel area and the state vehicle overturned. The Constable and the two soldiers sustained serious injuries and were transported to the hospital while the other soldier had no visible injuries,” said Naidoo.
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