Eight dead in South Africa after overloaded car crashes

Eight people died in a horrific crash in northern KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa on Tuesday after the driver of the Mazda 3 failed to stop at a stop street,

Seven people were killed on the scene and six others were critically injured when a bakkie crashed with a car on the R34 between Vryheid and Ulundi on Tuesday morning.

Another person died in the hospital.

In a statement, the provincial department of transport said preliminary investigations showed that the driver of a Mazda 3 had failed to stop at a stop street before crashing head-on with a Ford Ranger.