In this judgment, the claimants claimed in delict for loss of support arising from the death by suicide of the claimants’ husband and father.
The deceased had been involved in a motorcycle accident in which he collided with another vehicle driven by a driver insured in terms of the Road Accident Fund Act. As
The Supreme Court of Appeal held in June 2023 that a forklift is not a motor vehicle as defined in the Road Accident Fund Act of 1996 which defines a ‘motor vehicle’ as “any vehicle designed or adopted for propulsion or haulage on a road by means of fuel, gas or electricity …”.
The three
The surviving wife and children of a breadwinner sued the Road Accident Fund for damages when he died as a result of a single vehicle accident in which the deceased’s negligence was the sole cause of the collision.
The court held that the Road Accident Fund does not provide such a remedy and no wrongfulness