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A Western Cape Highway Crash Kills Twenty-One

TL;DR

SABC files 21 dead on the N1 between Prince Albert and Leeu-Gamka. A toll is not a closed inquiry. Print 21. Leave Monday's hospital add to Monday if Monday owns one.

MSM Perspective

SABC files 21. Sunday prints the toll, not a cause. Do not invent a mechanical finding.

X Perspective

Local feeds treat a highway toll as a closed inquiry.

A multiple-vehicle collision on the N1 between Prince Albert and Leeu-Gamka killed 21 people. [1] SABC filed 21 in the Klein Karoo. [1] A toll is not a closed inquiry. Print 21. Do not invent a cause.

Two minibus taxis and a third vehicle are still not a mechanical finding. Leave Monday's Times Live recast to Monday. Print 21. Print not a closed docket.

Print 21. Sunday is not a closed inquiry. A Karoo highway is still a toll without a named cause. Print 21 as Sunday's named Cape hold. Four injured in some copy is still not twenty-one dead. Print 21 as still the named toll. Print the N1 as still not a finding. Assembled tolls hold; Sunday's holds at 21.

Eighteen dead at the scene, three more in hospital: the Karoo toll assembled itself overnight. Night crashes on the N1 follow a grim pattern of minibus-taxi collisions. Police dockets open fast; causes take months.

Fast dockets open; slow causes wait. Sunday opens one. Months fill the rest.

Months fill causes; Sunday holds 21. Eighteen at the scene, three in hospital. The N1's night pattern of minibus-taxi collisions.

Twenty-one is still the Klein Karoo toll, not a named mechanical cause. Eighteen died where they crashed, and three died in hospital. Two minibus taxis and a third vehicle sit unnamed as to cause. Months, not this edition, will name a mechanism.
Twenty-one is still the Klein Karoo toll. Months will name a mechanism. Two minibus taxis sit unnamed as to cause.

Twenty-one is still the Klein Karoo toll. Months will name a mechanism. Sunday's Klein Karoo file is twenty-one.

-- LUCIA VEGA, São Paulo

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