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Mandy, that is a very sad story, I feel terrible for the families of those children. My husband and I were in South Africa (Pretoria) 3 yrs. ago for his job. I was alone during the days and I would spend time looking out the window of our room at people walking by. I saw so many taxi's go by that were crammed full of people and there were a couple of major accident's on the news over the two weeks we were there. I'm sorry to hear it's still an ongoing battle.
Nimetic: I don't think seat belts would do anything to help combat the situation. From what I remember, the taxi's aren't a whole lot bigger than a minivan. As Mandy said the taxi was only supposed to be carrying 15 people and instead was carrying 27. Not to make light at all but it's like each taxi is a clown car with as many people as possible wedged in. Even if 15 were belted in, 12 would still be unprotected.
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