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It had a total of 46 occupants and was travelling on the regional route 518 through the Kloof Pass, a mountainous route that contains numerous tight bends. [9] Initial information suggested the driver had missed the turn-off for the much smoother N11 national route. [10]
Despite being only two kilometers long, it is very steep with an average gradient 1:11. The summit of Kloof Nek Road is a small but complicated intersection that's not clearly visible on approach and often catches motorists unaware. The road's steepness may be a contributor to the regular occurrence of often-fatal accidents on Kloof Nek Road. [1]
South Africa portal; The N1 is a national route in South Africa that runs from Cape Town through Bloemfontein, Johannesburg, Pretoria and Polokwane to Beit Bridge on the border with Zimbabwe. [1]
The Dutch and British settlers at the Cape built a rough pass called the Hottentots Holland Kloof Pass following the Gantouw route. The first recorded crossing was in 1664, [ 2 ] and by 1821 the pass was seeing 4500 ox-wagons per year crossing into the interior, but the route was so severe that more than 20% of them were damaged. [ 3 ]
The Atlantic side of the Back Table is known as the Twelve Apostles, which extends from Kloof Nek (the saddle between Table Mountain and Lion's Head) to Hout Bay. The eastern side of this portion of the Peninsula's mountain chain, extending from Devil's Peak , the eastern side of Table Mountain (Erica and Fernwood Buttresses), and the Back ...
The crash was one of several accidents in the area due to heavy fog, police said. St John Sheriff Mike Tregre said that there was a total of 25 crashes on the road, involving three 18-wheel trucks ...
The N2 enters KwaZulu-Natal atop Brooks Nek, after which it bypasses Kokstad to the south and meets the R56 from Matatiele. The N2 and the R56 are co-signed for 43 kilometres (27 mi) eastwards until which the R56 splits from the N2 at Stafford's Post.
The name Tamboerskloof is derived from the Dutch and Afrikaans words tamboer (drum) and kloof (valley). When Dutch settlers arrived and set up farms in the 1650s, they established the first of a series of lookout points at the site where Tamboerskloof lies today. From these lookout points, watchmen would beat drums to alert farmers in the area ...