TimesLIVE reports that a passenger in the front seat had to be hauled out of a burning taxi through the driver's shattered window on the Soweto Golden Highway, near Booysens, on Wednesday morning.  

Witness Bruce Khonte said:  "I first heard the taxi making a weird sound and driving at a very high speed … Then it stopped and fell on its side.  My colleague and I ran towards it and more people started coming.  We were able to get it back on to its wheels, but it started burning from the back, just before all the people could get out."  According to Khonte, the taxi was carrying about 10 passengers but only one, the passenger in the front seat, was badly injured.  The cause of the fire is unclear.  Only the taxi’s scorched metal frame remains.  The taxi was reportedly transporting passengers from Meadowlands to the Johannesburg CBD.

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