Accident Survivor Relives Miraculous Escape

FRANCISTOWN: August 17, 2008 will remain indelible in the mind of Botswana Power Corporation (BPC) electrician Gaosepe Pelemo after miraculously escaping the inferno that gutted a company bakkie he had been driving.

It was on a Sunday morning, at around 11am, when Pelemo and a female passenger heard a loud bang from one of the rear tyres. The 33-year-old Mopipi born Pelemo, who is affectionately known as "Defaulter" by his peers, did not know what had hit them as the BPC bakkie lost control and overturned about three times before it rested on the passenger's side and burst into flames.

" I was very lucky to have survived after I unfastened the seat belt which had trapped me," narrates Pelemo from his hospital bed at Riverside Hospital in Francistown.

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