The Amazwi Villager

Written By Linky Matsie

Many people go to bed worrying about food, money, and what they are going to do the next day. Most could never imagine waking up in the middle night to the sound of a car crashing into their house. This nightmare happened to the Moele family in the early morning of Saturday, 23 August.

The Moele family is well known in Acornhoek. They are the business owners of supermarkets in Township community. They went to sleep on Friday, 22 August happy. Around 3 a.m., Beatrice Moele, mother of the family, heard a terrible scary noise. “I thought it was a boom. Maybe thieves want to steal,” she said. Through her daughter’s open door, she saw a hole in the wall and in the hole, a white bakkie. Three men were still inside the bakkie.

She said that her mind was only thinking of her daughter, Katlego, who is in her 20’s and was sleeping in that room. “I was relived to see my daughter walking in the passage of the house,” she said.

Katlego thought that she was dreaming when she heard the loud noise. “I was surprised to see a bakkie in my room when I uncovered my blanket,” Katlego explained. According to her, the driver was sleeping and going fast. She checked the car inside and the speedometer was stuck at 120 km per hour. There was no sign, she said, ing that he tried to stop the car. “I think he woke up when he heard the noise.”

Before the car crashed into Katlego’s room, it drove through the homestead’s brick wall fence and iron poles. The bakkie managed to break the window and the wall of the house. Luckily no one was injured.

Soon after, neighbours and relatives arrived at the Moele house to witness the aftermath of the accident. Everyone was very surprised and scared. “We are grateful that no one was injured. Your house will be fixed by the person who nearly killed your child,” said one woman who was looking at the house with fear. One young boy said that the river drove the bakkie into the house on purpose. “They are just jealous. They wish they can have as beautiful a house as the Moele house,” said the boy.

The car had a Great North Transport sticker on it. When the Villager contacyed Great North they did not want to comment.

Director Mashego of Acornhoek Police Station said that in a case where cars crash into a house, the police don’t arrest that person. The driver would have to pay the damage that he caused on the property because he was negligent and reckless.

The family is grateful that no one was injured. On most nights, Katlego’s two younger sisters usually sleep with her in the room where the vehicle crashed. They themselves don’t even know why they decided to sleep their own rooms that night.