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The Streicher family photographed three years ago in happier times. Janco, Celeste, Frank and Lua. Little Lua is the lone-survivor following a horrific accident which claimed her mom, dad and baby brother on Saturday, 6th of May. Photo: Jeannie C Photography
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around 16:20 that afternoon, their Toyota Prado crashed head-on into an oncoming truck as they rounded a blind corner. The exact details of what happened is not yet clear, but it is reported that the truck was travelling on the wrong side of the road. Frank, Celeste and Franco died on the scene. Lenisé passed away a short while later and Janco, was rushed to Mediclinic Tzaneen. He was kept sedated as he had some swelling on his brain. He also had a broken arm and a fractured knee. Janco, the son of the vice-principal of Laerskool Phalaborwa, Cornel Oberholzer, is also a cancer survivor and at the time of going to print it was reported that he was stable. Lua did not see the accident which killed her entire family as the friends she was travelling with had stopped to refuel. She will now stay on with her grandmother on her father’s side, Herna Streicher. A memorial service for the Streicher family will be held tomorrow, in Phalaborwa. It was the family’s wish that they be cremated. Frank was a very well-known physiotherapist and
Celeste a teacher at Laerskool Phalaborwa. They moved to Phalaborwa roughly 12 years ago and became much loved among their peers for their kind and caring nature. Lenisé matriculated from Ben Vorster high school in Tzaneen last year and was studying to become a teacher. She was doing her internship at Laerskool Phalaborwa at the time of the accident. She was described by her colleagues and former classmates as a ray of sunshine within the Tzaneen community. Ben Vorster High has extended their condolences to the family at this very traumatic time. Her memorial service will be held today at the In-House Lifestyle centre in Phalaborwa at 14:00. Lenisé is survived by her mother and stepfather, Lyndie and David Raath, her father Wikus Janse van Vuuren, her sisters Abbey and Lizani and her brother, Schalk. “The world became poorer today…and the heavens richer,” said one message over social media. — Joe Dreyer joe@bulletin.us.com
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Lenisé Janse van Vuuren
Phalaborwa and Tzaneen mourn the loss of a beloved family, and a student teacher this week, following a horrific accident on the Gravelotte road just past the Selati Ruins. Frank (41) and his wife Celeste (40) Streicher were returning home from Letsitele on Saturday afternoon. They were attending a school sports day at Dr Annecke Primary school where they watched their son score his first try during a ‘bulletjie’ rugby match. In the car with them was their son, Franco (6), his friend Janco Oberholzer (6) and a primary school intern-teacher, Lenisé Janse van Vuuren (19). The couple’s daughter, Lua (8), was travelling with friends in another vehicle. It is reported that at
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