‘Bad-luck bus’ in yet another accident

TWELVE children and a woman were slightly injured when a bus collided with a taxi in Windhoek West around lunchtime yesterday.

The accident on the corner of Beethoven and Brahms streets apparently happened after the taxi failed to stop at the stop sign. The force of the collision turned the bus onto its side and it finally skidded to a halt about 10 metres down the road.The children’s parents work for the Namibia Airports Company at Hosea Kutako Airport outside Windhoek.The same bus, carrying the same children and with the same bus driver, Moses Klaas, was involved in a freak accident last year when a section of Sam Nujoma Road collapsed after a pipe burst.The bus fell into the hole and some of the children suffered slight injuries.According to several people who gathered at the scene of yesterday’s collision, accidents regularly happen at that corner.They blame speeding drivers and a blind spot in the road.”We have been complaining about this specific corner and its dangers to the municipality for two years now and nothing has been done,” said a visibly angry man.The force of the collision turned the bus onto its side and it finally skidded to a halt about 10 metres down the road.The children’s parents work for the Namibia Airports Company at Hosea Kutako Airport outside Windhoek.The same bus, carrying the same children and with the same bus driver, Moses Klaas, was involved in a freak accident last year when a section of Sam Nujoma Road collapsed after a pipe burst.The bus fell into the hole and some of the children suffered slight injuries.According to several people who gathered at the scene of yesterday’s collision, accidents regularly happen at that corner.They blame speeding drivers and a blind spot in the road.”We have been complaining about this specific corner and its dangers to the municipality for two years now and nothing has been done,” said a visibly angry man.