Pongola truck crash: Driver set to be sentenced

The truck driver involved in the deadly Pongola truck crash will be sentenced on Wednesday.

Sibusiso Siyaya was found guilty on 20 counts of murder by the KwaZulu-Natal High Court sitting in Pongola, north of the province, on Tuesday.

He was arrested in September 2022, after his truck collided head-on with a bakkie transporting school children. Eighteen pupils and two adults died in the collision.

After a guilty verdict on the 20 counts of murder, reckless and negligent driving, as well as failure to perform duties of a driver after an accident, Sibusiso Siyaya will learn his fate.

The accident was captured on a camera installed in his truck.

It showed how he flouted the rules of the road by driving in an incoming lane, for about 1.2 kilometres.

One of the mothers, Nonhlanhla Ntshangase, who lost all three of her children in the accident is still reeling.

The government has promised to widen the road but work on the road is yet to begin.

-EWN

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