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The Eastern Cape Transport Department says a total of 20 people were killed on the province’s roads over the Heritage Day Weekend.
Department spokesperson, Unathi Binqose, said nine pedestrians who were hit by vehicles in different towns, were among the victims.
He says two separate crashes on Saturday, one in Cathcart and the other in Peddie, claimed six lives, while three people returning from a family gathering died in a crash on the N2 between Peddie and Makhanda yesterday.
Binqose says a biker and another motorist died in two other incidents reported in Nelson Mandela Bay and Kareedouw over the weekend.
He says human error and the use of alcohol on the road were cited as some of the major contributing factors in all these crashes.
Culpable homicide dockets have been opened in all of the cases.
