A culpable homicide case is under investigation after a pedestrian was fatally struck early Tuesday morning in Victoria Road, Woodstock by a Golden Arrow Bus.<\/p>\n
Woodstock police are investigating a culpable homicide case after a man allegedly walked into the path of the oncoming bus at around 5.27am.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The man, reportedly in his 50s, was struck by the bus, which was carrying passengers at the time, directly opposite the Salt River firestation.<\/p>\n
A video of the incident taken by another driver passing by shows the gruesome scene.<\/p>\n
Spokesperson for the Golden Arrow Bus Service, Bronwen Dyke-Beyer said that the driver operating the Nyanga-Cape Town route was unable to avoid the collision.<\/p>\n
Dyke-Beyer explained: \u201cGolden Arrow can confirm an incident that occurred at approximately 5.30am on Tuesday morning involving one of our buses operating on the Nyanga\u2013Cape Town route.<\/p>\n
\u201cAccording to preliminary information, a pedestrian walked directly into the path of the oncoming bus. The driver was unable to avoid the collision, and the pedestrian was tragically declared deceased at the scene.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe bus was carrying passengers at the time. Golden Arrow extends its sincere condolences to the family and loved ones of the deceased.\u201d<\/p>\n
Daily Voice sources in the Woodstock and Salt River area could not identify the deceased or confirm if the victim is a resident in the area.<\/p>\n
Police spokesperson Captain FC Van Wyk confirmed that Woodstock police are investigating a culpable homicide case with no arrests made as yet.<\/p>\n
Van Wyk reported: \u201cWoodstock police registered a culpable homicide case following an accident this morning (Tuesday, 13 January) at 5.27am in Victoria Road, Woodstock in which an unidentified male in his 50s was fatally injured.<\/p>\n
\u201cCircumstances surrounding this accident are under investigation. Investigations continue, no arrest.\u201d<\/p>\n
Police are appealing to anyone with any information about this incident to kindly contact Crime Stop on 08600 10111 or use the mobile application MySAPS anonymously.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A culpable homicide case is under investigation after a pedestrian was fatally struck early Tuesday morning in Victoria…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21443,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[13384,4462,2065,8039,2546,4365,5638,13379,13383,13380,13385,131,13382,13381],"class_list":{"0":"post-21442","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-south-africa","8":"tag-bronwen-dyke-beyer","9":"tag-bus","10":"tag-cape-town","11":"tag-case","12":"tag-crime-stop","13":"tag-daily-voice","14":"tag-f-c-van-wyk","15":"tag-golden-arrow-bus","16":"tag-nyanga-cape-town","17":"tag-pedestrian","18":"tag-salt-river","19":"tag-south-africa","20":"tag-victoria-road","21":"tag-woodstock"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21442\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}