A3 road: From debt trap to death trap
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A3 road accidents have largely been attributed to the dreadful state of the road PIC: FACEBOOK
Death trap stats
A few weeks back, an accident claimed 22 lives along the A3 road just near Marapong village. A sprinter heading to Maun from Francistown collided with a truck that was going in the opposite direction. The accident comes just less than a year after another one claimed 16 lives along the same road, near the sleepy village of Hubona. The Hubona accident involved two mini-buses and a Toyota Dyna. Over 40 people have died on the A3 since the Hubona accident in July last year.
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