9 people have been injured after a shipping container accident.

• Nine people were injured in an accident involving a shipping container and a police van in Cape Town on Monday.
• The police asked for any witnesses to contact them. 
• The injured were taken to nearby hospitals for treatment.

Nine people were injured in an accident involving a shipping container and a police vehicle in Cape Town on Monday. 

City of Cape Town spokesperson Kevin Jacobs said the two right lanes on the N2 inbound between Jan Smuts and Raapenberg were closed after the accident.

Pictures from the scene show a flattened police van, and a large yellow shipping container lying on its side, with scrape marks on the tar.

Western Cape police would only say nine people were injured, and the incident was still being investigated.

The injured were taken to nearby hospitals.

Mowbray police have registered a case of reckless and negligent driving.

The police did not say whether the injured were occupants of the police van and if they were on their way to court.

Meanwhile, the police asked anyone who witnessed the accident to call Crime Stop on 08600 10111.

In 2021, a container fell in high winds on two cars in a freight yard in Paarden Island.

Nobody was injured.

In 2017, a truck overturned on the N1 near the Koeberg interchange, and the blue shipping container landed on the vehicle Alan Ryke and his stepson, Nicolaas Brits, were traveling in.

They did not survive, while truck driver Daniel Omar died in hospital.

On Monday, the City said the Public Emergency and Communication Center recorded 113 motor vehicle and pedestrian accidents this past weekend.

This is an increase of more than a third compared to last weekend when severe weather impacted statistics.

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