The four suspected members of a “crowbar gang” who were killed in a crash on the M3 in Cape Town were travelling in a hired car.
|||Cape Town - The four suspected members of a “crowbar gang” who were killed in a car crash on Wednesday were travelling in a hired vehicle with false number plates.
This was according to a police source who asked not to be named.
Three suspected members of the gang died on the scene after a high-speed chase along the M3 highway near Constantia. Their getaway vehicle - a silver-grey Toyota - was involved in a three-car collision.
The fourth suspect died later in hospital.
The officer said the four had been linked to a number of house robberies across the Cape Peninsula.
Stolen household items were recovered from the suspects' vehicle.
Three other people, including a child, from the other vehicles were also taken to hospital after the accident.
Police spokesperson Andre Traut said the suspects were spotted by security personnel shortly after they allegedly burgled a house in Diep River. The security guards tried to intercept them, but they sped away and a high-speed chase ensued.
“On the M3, the suspects drove their Toyota Corolla on the wrong side of the road, colliding with oncoming vehicles.
“The occupants of the other two vehicles, a mother and a child in the one vehicle and a male person in the other, were admitted to hospital with minor injuries.”
ER 24 spokesperson Russel Meiring said paramedics found one vehicle lying overturned in the middle of the road. A second wrecked vehicle came to a halt at the side of the road.
A third vehicle ended up in the middle of the highway, he said.
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Cape Times