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Police identify victims of Audi-R8 accident in PE


Police have identified two of the people killed in a high speed crash in Port Elizabeth on Sunday night.

They were  50-year-old Philip Weyers-Henderson from Jansenville and 26-year-old Jarryd Mckinnon - from Port Elizabeth.

The third victim, who was dressed in a chef's uniform, has not yet been identified.

The three were killed on the M4 Freeway when an Audi R8 2-seater sports car left the road on the Mount Road off ramp on the way to Summerstrand and landed on the railway tracks below.

Provincial traffic department  deputy director Charles Bramwell says three men were travelling in the vehicle and all three were killed on impact.

All three victims had been thrown out of the car and their bodies were found some 30 to 40 metres away from the wreckage.  


Bramwell says evidence on the scene suggests that the Audi R8 hit the pavement, metal guardrails and fencing on the Mount Road off-ramp, became airborne, and then impacted a metal purline supporting high voltage overhead train cables.