Victims of Arandis accident identified

THE three people killed in a car accident between Arandis and Usakos on Friday have been named by the Police.

They were Pierre Jansen van Rensburg (40) and his 12-year-old son, Claude Jansen van Rensburg (12) – both South African citizens, according to the Erongo Police chief, Deputy Commissioner Festus Shilongo. The third person killed in the same accident was a Walvis Bay girl, Michelle Simon (15), who was a passenger.According to a Police report, the driver of the VW Polo lost control, causing the vehicle to overturn.There were five people in the car.The two injured were taken to Swakopmund hospitals.Shilongo said the name of the Chinese national who was killed in another car accident on the same day, also between Arandis and Usakos, could still not be revealed.Four people, three of them foreigners, died on the coastal roads at the start of the Easter weekend.The third person killed in the same accident was a Walvis Bay girl, Michelle Simon (15), who was a passenger.According to a Police report, the driver of the VW Polo lost control, causing the vehicle to overturn.There were five people in the car.The two injured were taken to Swakopmund hospitals.Shilongo said the name of the Chinese national who was killed in another car accident on the same day, also between Arandis and Usakos, could still not be revealed.Four people, three of them foreigners, died on the coastal roads at the start of the Easter weekend.

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