Courage Tachera dies in crash while driving a friend’s car near Karoi

Correctional officer Courage Tachera was among two people killed when a car struck the rear of a slow-moving abnormal-load truck near Buffalo Downs, outside Karoi, according to the report. Four other occupants of the car were injured in the collision. Tachera, a Grade One officer stationed at the Zimbabwe Prisons and Correctional Service’s Mashonaland West Provincial Headquarters, was off duty and driving a friend’s car from Karoi towards Chinhoyi. The group had reportedly been on a shopping trip, while the friend who owned the car was sitting in the back and had felt unwell. The account says the crash happened on Friday afternoon, as the vehicle travelled down a steep descent near Buffalo Downs. Tachera and one passenger died at the scene. The four injured occupants were taken to hospital, although their condition was not provided. The report links the fatal collision to a wider run of serious crashes on the Harare–Chirundu Highway, but gives no evidence of a shared cause. It notes that other incidents on the route have involved private cars, passenger vehicles and heavy trucks, including crashes around Karoi and Chinhoyi. In one earlier collision cited in the account, four people died and 14 were injured in a head-on crash at the 101-kilometre peg on 7 September. Police said a Mercedes-Benz Sprinter carrying 21 passengers collided with a Toyota Probox carrying five. Those injured were admitted to Chinhoyi Provincial Hospital, while the bodies were taken to its mortuary for post-mortem examinations. The police statement confirmed the number of people travelling in both vehicles but did not specify which vehicle the victims were in or provide further details about how the collision occurred. The report on Tachera’s death likewise gives no further information about the injured passengers’ condition.