A wallet containing R70 in cash was all that Bosasa boss Gavin Watson had with him when he died in a horrific crash at OR Tambo International Airport in the early hours of Monday morning.
Police officials who attended the scene also found his ID card and driver’s licence, but there were no travel bags, passports or cellphones in the company-owned Toyota Corolla.
Watson, who was scheduled to testify before a tax inquiry into Bosasa’s affairs on Tuesday, was declared dead on the scene.
The Toyota Corolla was ripped apart, the engine burst asunder and the front right axle was torn clean off the car from the force of the impact.
In the pre-dawn gloom, Watson’s vehicle had collided with a concrete bridge pillar adjacent to the road leading off the R21 motorway to the drop-off and parking zone of the airport. It is possible that his valuables were removed from the car in the immediate aftermath of the crash, but as this particular stretch of road is located in a blind spot of the airport’s surveillance system, it will be impossible to know for sure.
Photographs of the vehicle, which is registered to Bosasa, show that Watson was probably not wearing his seatbelt. It was tucked in behind his body, the clasp clicked into the buckle to stop the inevitable and annoying beep of the on-board computer.
His everyday car, a high-performance BMW X5, was parked at Bosasa’s offices in Krugersdorp. It apparently had a mechanical fault. Watson had taken the Corolla for the weekend, apparently after a prayer meeting with other staff on Sunday.
Asked whether Watson had ever driven a Toyota Corolla in the past, Bosasa’s former fleet manager Frans Vorster said “never… I was personally responsible for his cars. If his (luxury) vehicles were in for a service, I had to rent a similar model for him to drive with,” said Vorster.
The central missing pieces of the puzzle are:
Why was Watson going to the airport?
Why did he drive a company Toyota Corolla?
Why are there no visible brake marks on the tarmac?
Conspiracies abound, ranging from an “assisted suicide” to being followed and/or chased and losing control of the vehicle, to Watson suffering a heart attack shortly before the accident.
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Source: News24
