The Citizen reports that a soldier was crushed by a truck on the N12 in Johannesburg while taking part in a routine roadblock on Tuesday morning.  

The accident happened at a roadblock on the N12 East near Comaro Street during a joint operation undertaken by the SA National Defence Force (SANDF), the Johannesburg metro police and the SA Police Service.  The driver of the truck reportedly lost control of the vehicle and it fell over onto the soldier.  The SANDF said its military police were currently investigating the circumstances surrounding the accident and more information would be released in due course.  The SANDF added that another of its soldiers was killed on Saturday near Acornhoek in Mpumalanga while travelling in a police vehicle which crashed while in pursuit of another vehicle that had failed to stop at a roadblock.

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