A seventeen-year-old motorcyclist was killed when his bike struck and articulated truck in the junction of Jan van Riebeeck and President Steyn Streets in Akasia, Pretoria North, this afternoon. The cause of the accident remains unclear and will form the subject of a South African Police Force investigation.
Netcare911 Paramedics arrived at the scene to find the teen’s bloodied body lying in the intersection. It is thought that the rider and the truck were travelling in opposite directions when one party turned across the path of the other.
The force of impact threw the boy from his bike and he was found lying near the crumpled wreckage of the cycle.
He had sustained multi-system traumatic injuries and had unfortunately died prior to the arrival of medics. No one else was injured in the incident.
Traffic in the busy arterial intersection was obstructed while emergency service personnel cleared the scene.
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