3 Zimbabweans die in high-speed UK crash

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By Staff Reporter

A PROMINENT Bulawayo businessman, his nephew and a female friend died in a high-speed car crash on a British motorway in the early hours of Sunday morning.

Vee Moyo, 46, his nephew Denford Sibanda, 22, and a friend, Jane Ndebele, 28, died instantly when the roof of their Mercedes became wedged seven feet under a truck on the M1.

Incredibly, a fourth passenger in the back suffered only chest injuries.

Moyo, who moved to the UK in 1999, runs a safari company in Zimbabwe, and owned the Boyz II Men hair salon, Simunye Grooves Nightclub and VM Driving School.

The four were returning home to Essex after a family party in Milton Keynes, Bucks, friends said.

The crash happened on the M1 southbound near Redbourne, Herts, at 5am on Sunday. The Mercedes ploughed into the truck which was on the hard shoulder. Police were trying to establish if the truck was parked or moving at the time, and why the Mercedes was driving on the hard shoulder.

Ambulance spokesman Gary Sanderson said: "It was a very severe accident, one of the worst I've seen for many years.

Police said: "It was a high-speed impact. We're not yet certain whether the lorry was slow-moving or stationary."

Prominent Zimbabwean DJ, Ezra Tshisa Sibanda, a family friend said: "I was supposed to have officiated at the party but I pulled out at the last minute due to other commitments. I could have been in that car at that very moment.

"Vee was a great friend, well known in social circles and his untimely death has robbed his family and friends of a father and great socialite."

Moyo leaves behind three children and wife, Connie. Burial arrangements had not been announced Monday night.
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