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Twenty-five people have been killed in eight separate accidents in the Free State Province over the weekend.
Police Spokesperson Captain Loraine Earle says on Sunday, 10 people were killed on the N1 near Koppies when a taxi driver drove under a truck.
She says on Friday, 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.
A 49 police sergeant was also killed when his vehicle hit a stray animal in Winburg.
Captain Earle says in Spitskop a pedestrian was hit by a car near a liquor store after which two other vehicles drove over the victim.
She says in Memel a female pedestrian was hit by a vehicle in Saturday afternoon as she was trying to cross the road while another pedestrian died in hospital after being hit by a vehicle near the Mooidraai informal settlement in Zamdela.
Captain Earle says five people were killed in two separate accidents in Odendaalsrus and on the N6 just outside Bloemfontein involving multiple vehicles.
SAPS says traffic volumes are increasing on major routes in anticipation of the festive season.
