Johannesburg - Four people were killed when a car collided with a truck on the N7 outside of Malmesbury, Cape Town, emergency medical services said.
Spokesperson Robert Daniels said the accident occurred shortly after 20:00 on Monday.
"EMS responded with specialist equipment to extricate the bodies from the mangled wreckage which took several hours due to the severity of the crash," he said in a statement.
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