Horrific Highway

HORRIFIC HIGHWAY Driving at the speed allowed On Highway N17, traffic ploughing, Zig zagging, racing, and over taking Accidents in the making, Motor bikes screaming past, Driving fanatically fast, Showing off thinking it’s a blast, A terrifying scene, Spades, The queen Of death on the road, A taxi collides with a Garbage truck, Taxi overloaded, what Incalculable bad luck, people just fly As most the passengers die, And garbage and muck, Fall out of the truck. Driver trapped underneath, Fire men, paramedics Try to pull him out from beneath, Traffic police guiding cars, into One lane, For some, it will never be The same, As ambulances carry the The injured away, To perhaps see another day! The dead covered with silver Thermal blankets are waiting For the mortuary van Damn, Don’t want to see any more, Want to run, But trapped in heavy Traffic jam, I want to scream and scram, Suddenly the police open, The road, Other cars also broken, But minor injuries Thank God, 1st responders, I must In awe, laud! NON METERED TAXI’S IN SOUTH AFRICA ARE ALLOWED UP TO 15 PASSENGERS IN A MINI TAXI AND UP TO 22 IN THE LARGER ONES – THIS WAS AN OVERLOADED MINI TAXI – MORE OR LESS HALF THE PEOPLE SURVIVED. THIS OCCURRED JUST OUTSIDE JOHANNESBURG