Seven people, including a two-month-old baby, escaped with minor to mild injuries when they were involved in a road crash on Windhoek's Independence Avenue during Friday's lunch hour.

A 16-year-old girl has allegedly been raped at Omaruru by a taxi driver after a night out drinking.

The incident took place in the early hours of Friday morning.

According to the weekend police report that the girl went out drinking with her aunt, and later asked her aunt to be taken home.