Mr Maharaj said there were still some South Africans who "sit with their dogs in front in a van or truck with a worker at the back in pouring rain or extremely cold weather".

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The collision, involving a van and a tow truck, happened on the Ballybogey Road at 17:20 GMT on Saturday.

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Each year, Americans are said to devote 5.4 billion hours to complying with the tax code, more time than it takes to produce every car, truck and van made in America.

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This is significant, according to the foundation, as 40 percent of pedestrians that were killed or injured were struck by a pickup truck, van, or S.U.V. (sport utility vehicle) in 2009, the most recent year for which data is available.

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According to the San Diego Union Tribune, Hartline then jumped out of the truck and into a white van, demanding to be taken to another location.

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The station van, an old ice-cream truck, is parked outside.

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There were no indications the man driving the van touched the brakes before the van slammed into the back of the truck, which was mounted with a lighted arrow board, he said.

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They were killed and a man was injured when their van was hit by a trailer that broke away from a truck on Route 13 around 6 p.m.

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According to the National Weather Service's Storm Prediction Center, a Van Buren County highway was blocked by fallen trees and an 18-wheeler truck was overturned.

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In 2011, most Sprinter van sales are under the Mercedes-Benz brand, but some are under the Freightliner heavy-truck brand, which also belongs to parent company Daimler AG.

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