A visitor to the Arrive Alive website sent an email to the website warning against the dangers of texting while driving! Read this before you decide next time to send text messages from behind the steering wheel The very real human consequences from driving while ‘InTEXTicated’. An 18-year-old girl plowed directly into the rear of [...]
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At around 16h30 Netcare 911 rushed to the scene where a fire vehicle from the rural metro rolled on a dirt road in Nsileni near Richards Bay. Paramedics stabilised two firemen. One sustained a serious head injury and the other had a fracture to his arm. Both patients were treated and then transported to a hospital [...]
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Ian McGeechan, coach of the 2009 British & Irish Lions Rugby Team, made some interesting observations at the media conference shortly after arriving in South Africa. McGeechan remarked that his squad’s immediate challenge was to assimilate themselves into South African rugby [...]
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This morning at around 04H45, Netcare 911 intercepted a white bakkie in Mt Egdecombe area. ”I noticed the bakkie driving with hazards on along the R102 white house road”, said Shaun. On further investigation we noticed two occupants were lying in the back of the bakkie. They were shot several times. Netcare 911 paramedics [...]
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This morning at around 04h30 Netcare 911, fire and the provincial ambulance services rushed to the scene of a horrific accident on the Mpumalanga road in Hammersdale where a truck and a bus had collided head-on. Tragically 5 people lost there lives due to the severity of there injuries and [...]
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I have come across an interesting article in the Cape Times which features new road infrastructure to impact on road safety in the Southern Cape. I would like to quote: ” Road users in and around Knysna could find themselves surveying a brand new landscape with the construction of an entirely new road, [...]
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A visitor to the Arrive Alive website sent an email to the website with the above photos. This was titled “Ferrari in pole position”! View the Arrive Alive website for info on: Advanced Driving
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Netcare 911 paramedics were called out to the Mando’s used spares in Ottawa road Veralum this afternoon as two people reportedly sustained gun shot wounds. Paramedics arrived and found a security guard with a critical gun shot wound to the chest. They frantically tried to resuscitate him but sadly he died due [...]
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Former South African veteran road cycling champion, Kim Trezebiatowsky, died on Sunday evening from injuries sustained when she was hit by a car while training on Sunday afternoon. The 47-year-old mother of three was a member of Cycle Lab Supercycling Club and was cycling on Seaview Road in Port Elizabeth when [...]
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In a highly successful test conducted over the weekend and continued early this morning, the eNaTIS disaster recovery centre (DRC) has proved to be fully operational. The DRC, housed at a remote site, serves as full backup to the system’s main data centre should the latter become unavailable for [...]
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