The e-hailing driver accused of injuring eight children when he allegedly ploughed into them while they were playing on the pavement in Elephant Street, Eastridge, is in Pollsmoor Prison.
The 27-year-old man appeared in Mitchell’s Plain Magistrate’s Court on Monday September 19 after seven of the children were discharged from Red Cross War Memorial Children’s Hospital at the weekend.
The State opposed bail and the case was postponed to Monday September 26 for a bail hearing.
SAPS provincial spokesman, Captain Frederick van Wyk, said the man faced a charge of reckless and or negligent driving.
Late on Monday September 21, another of the children was discharged from the children’s hospital.
Ian Allan Britz, chairman of the Mitchell’s Plain Community Police Forum’s Eastridge sub-forum who is also the grandfather of Leonard Smith, 9, who had his leg broken in two places, called on his neighbours for more support and to be honest about the accident.
He said lots of misinformation was shared on social media. “We as the community should speak the truth,” he said.
Nuraan Pretorius said her daughter Azraa, 11, was in pain. Her right thigh and left ankle were injured. “She cannot walk on her left foot,” she said.
Ms Pretorius said they were advised that Azraa should wait for about three days. They did X-rays and said that nothing was broken. “But when she got home she could not sleep because of the pain,” she said.
Ms Pretorius said there were a lot of rumours going around and that their neighbours should stand together.
The eighth child, a 6-year-old girl, was still in hospital late on Monday but Red Cross War Memorial Children’s Hospital spokesperson, Byron la Hoe, told the Plainsman on Tuesday that the girl was discharged on Monday.