Horror dashcam vid shows crazed trucker killing 18 children as he sped down wrong side of road & crashed into school van
SHOCKING video shows a crazed trucker driving on the wrong side of the road at intense speed before killing 18 children in a horror crash.
The driver overtook 15 cars before fatally crushing the teacher, other driver and kids who were on their way home from school.
Sibusiso Siyaya, 28, was convicted of 20 counts of murder for all of the victims in the horrific smash in South Africa.
Terrifying dashcam footage showed the speeding HGV which was hauling a huge 34 tonnes of coal down a busy road in Pongola.
Siyaya was said to be given a cash bonus for the amount of coal he could deliver per day to a ship in harbour.
He was working on his sixteenth day in a row when he arrived at the top of a mountain pass and was met with heavy traffic.
As he came to top of the hill video shows him quickly swerving to the right hand lane and speeding on ahead.
Several cars are forced to swerve to avoid hitting the 55-ton truck before tragedy strikes.
Siyaya had removed the number plates from his motor so that traffic cameras on the route could not get evidence of him breaking the speed limits, a court heard.
He was driving at more than 60mph against oncoming traffic before he crushed the Toyota station wagon being used as a school van.
The motor almost completely disappeared under the front of his huge truck as everyone onboard was killed.
It was hit with such force that the van was pushed 220 metres back along the busy road.
School-run driver Lethukuthula Nkonyane, 19, had no chance as he was hit head-on.
Teacher Zinhle Mkhize, 28, sat beside him in the cab and was also killed instantly.
Siyaya careers off the road entirely onto a grassy bank by the side of the motorway.
The school van, still trapped underneath it, can be seen in chilling pictures of the accident aftermath.
The driver, along with a female passenger, fled the scene making no attempt to help the victims of the crash.
He was arrested the next day and claimed his brakes had failed.
Road traffic accident investigators found the brakes were working and GPS tracking and the dashcam proved he was in control of the lorry throughout.
Judge Garth Davis summing up the case said the evidence showed he was driving at high speed on the wrong side of the road forcing other vehicles to swerve out the way for their lives.
He then smashed into the Toyota light delivery vehicle which had moved into the emergency lane and the force of the impact drove it back 220m until both vehicles went into a drainage ditch.