“Five people were killed, while nine others sustained injuries when an Isuzu D-Max vehicle with one passenger on board was involved in a head-on collision with another Isuzu D-Max vehicle with 14 passengers on board.” The Harare-Nyamapanda highway, a vital artery connecting Zimbabwe to Malawi and Mozambique, has earned a reputation as a ‘highway of death’. As evening fell over the Harare-Nyamapanda highway on Monday, the wreckage was cleared, and the blood was washed from the tarmac. The Harare-Nyamapanda highway remains a gauntlet of risk, where a simple journey home can end in a violent, metal-shredding conclusion. The 80-kilometre peg on that route is now as infamous as the 101-kilometre peg on the Nyamapanda road.