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Twenty-five people were killed in eight separate accidents in the Free State province this weekend.
Police spokesperson Captain Loraine Earle says that ten people were killed on Sunday on the N1 near Koppies when a taxi driver drove under a truck.
She says a 49-year-old father lost his 32-year-old wife and four children aged nine, 14 and 17 when his vehicle collided with a truck along the N3 near Harrisith on Friday.
A 49 police sergeant was also killed when his vehicle struck a stray animal in Winburg.
Captain Earle says that in Spitskop a pedestrian was hit by a car near a liquor store, after which two other vehicles ran over the victim.
She said in Memel on Saturday afternoon, a female pedestrian was hit by a vehicle while trying to cross the road, while another pedestrian died in hospital after being hit by a vehicle near the Mooi Draai informal settlement in Zamdela.
Captain Earle says five people have been killed in two separate accidents in Odendaalsrus and on the N6 just outside Bloemfontein, involving multiple vehicles.
SAPS says traffic volumes on key routes are increasing in anticipation of the festive season.
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