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CAPE TOWN, Western Cape - On Monday (Dec 1 2014) a video posted on YouTube showed the driver losing control of a silver BMW convertible on the N2 heading out of Cape Town.
A man, 27-year-old Thabang Sidloyi from Gugulethu, can be seen flying through the air after the impact with a lane-dividing concrete barrier the vehicle.
Had he been wearing a seat belt he would probably have survived.
OVERTAKE GONE WRONG
The video was posted by YouTube user Alex Williamson who video the incident with a dash cam. Williamson was driving in the right-hand lane before the crash.
According to a Cape Argus report, Sidloyi was best known for his starring role in the Irish/South African feature film The Good Man.
Sidloyi was one of five people in the car which was being driven by a friend and was killed in the crash.
The video clearly shows the BMW speeding. A white vehicle (looks like a double-cab) is seen in the far left lane when the BMW cuts in front of a silver Kia Picanto in the centre lane which had indicated and pulled out to pass the white vehicle.
The BMW driver loses control after the convertible, clips the front left of the Picanto, and crashes into the road-median barrier.
Sidloyi is flung out of the car as wreckage flies past and lands ahead of the vehicle.
The Cape Argus also reported that two passengers sustained minor injuries, one escaped unharmed, and the fourth was in Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town.
Read the original story here.
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A man, 27-year-old Thabang Sidloyi from Gugulethu, can be seen flying through the air after the impact with a lane-dividing concrete barrier the vehicle.
Had he been wearing a seat belt he would probably have survived.
OVERTAKE GONE WRONG
The video was posted by YouTube user Alex Williamson who video the incident with a dash cam. Williamson was driving in the right-hand lane before the crash.
According to a Cape Argus report, Sidloyi was best known for his starring role in the Irish/South African feature film The Good Man.
Sidloyi was one of five people in the car which was being driven by a friend and was killed in the crash.
The video clearly shows the BMW speeding. A white vehicle (looks like a double-cab) is seen in the far left lane when the BMW cuts in front of a silver Kia Picanto in the centre lane which had indicated and pulled out to pass the white vehicle.
The BMW driver loses control after the convertible, clips the front left of the Picanto, and crashes into the road-median barrier.
Sidloyi is flung out of the car as wreckage flies past and lands ahead of the vehicle.
The Cape Argus also reported that two passengers sustained minor injuries, one escaped unharmed, and the fourth was in Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town.
Read the original story here.
Click on the gif below to view the clip (Warning: graphic imagery)
