CAPE TOWN – At least five people died in separate road accidents in Cape Town on Tuesday.

A 21-year-old man lost control of his car on Voortrekker road in Kensington.

About 10 minutes later, three more people lost their lives on the same road when a taxi driver lost control of his vehicle.

The three occupants were believed to be foreign nationals in their early thirties.

On Monday, the Road Traffic Management Corporation said preliminary statistics from 1 December to 30 December revealed that more than 1207 fatalities were recorded.

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