Yesterday, news broke that alleged woman beater Andrew Turnbull was involved in a deadly high-speed crash.

The head-on-collision, on the R72 near Port Alfred in the direction of Kenton-On-Sea, claimed Andrew’s life, passenger Ryan Byrne’s life, and also the driver of a maroon Mercedes-Benz.

You can see a video showing 42-year-old Turnbull speeding at 260 km/h in his Jaguar moments before the crash here.

Tragically, it has now emerged that the driver of the Mercedes-Benz was 87-year-old grandmother Beulah Booysen, who was returning from a Port Alfred family visit to her retirement home in Kenton-on-Sea.

According to a female eyewitness, who spoke with TimesLIVE, the crash was a result of two cars racing against one other:

The woman was travelling in a minibus taxi from Port Eizabeth to East London on Sunday afternoon when she noticed two cars racing past at high speed.

“We were about 10 to 15 minutes from Port Alfred when we saw the two cars passing us like they were racing,” the woman said. “One was the Jaguar and the other one was a Mercedes, although I couldn’t say for sure what its colour was because the sun was shining brightly.

To be clear, the Mercedes mentioned above is not Booysen’s.

“There was a truck in front of us, and then the truck started to slow down. We were approaching a hill so we couldn’t see properly, but when we got over the hill we saw there was an accident.”

She said she saw a maroon car – Booysen’s Mercedes – and a long-distance bus, in which there were a number of teenage children. It was then that the taxi pulled off the road to see what was happening.

The eyewitness then recounted the immediate aftermath of the accident, including a still-conscious Turnbull asking for help:

“It was about 2.05pm. I then saw the white Jaguar. There was a big guy in the driver’s seat, but it looked like the car was going to catch fire. The driver’s door was completely off. I asked some of the guys around me help pull out the guy, but then we also realised there was somebody else who was trapped in the car on the passenger side. We managed to pull him out as well.”

She said the “big guy” – who turned out to be Turnbull – was communicating by pointing to injured areas of his body, particularly his arm, which looked broken.

The eyewitness then left with the taxi, and gave the emergency numbers to another lady on the scene.

The video showing the Jaguar speeding was actually marked as 2:07PM, so it must have been filmed just moments before the crash took place.

The bus driver spoke with police spokesperson Captain Mali Govender:

…the bus driver – who was travelling in the direction of Port Elizabeth on the R72 – said a vehicle travelling in the opposite direction had “sideswiped” the rear right of his vehicle when it passed him.

The driver then saw Turnbull’s Jaguar collide with Booysen’s Mercedes, which was travelling behind him.

Turnbull’s passenger, 19-year-old Ryan Byrne, was a Selborne old boy who had moved to Port Elizabeth around a year ago.

His uncle, Craig, believes that the two were coming from lunch in Port Alfred, and doesn’t know how Ryan knows Turnbull.

Imagine living 87 years, and then being killed in a crash because two cars were racing against one another? So senseless.

[source:timeslive]