Five people have been injured after two cars collided on the R44 in Blackheath near Stellenbosch. Paramedics that were on the scene were trying to determine how the accident could have happened, but were slightly stumped as there is quite a large middle island between the two lanes of the carriage way. It seems like [...]
Two construction workers were injured after the truck they were travelling in over turned on a dirt road near Hammersdale Main road this afternoon. ER24 along with VEMA arrived on the scene to find the truck lying on its side, blocking the dirt road and the two construction workers were found a few meters away [...]
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PROJECT : ARRIVE ALIVE Intervarsity between North-West University (Potchefstroom Campus) and University of the Free State Weekend of 6-8 August 2010 Our aim with this project is to ensure sober students arriving in Bloemfontein – thereby reducing the number of drivers under the influence of alcohol during Intervarsity. The hope is that we will directly [...]
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Twelve School Children Injured After Taxi Rolled. A taxi carrying school children has rolled at the intersection of Old Main and Ottovolk road this afternoon. ER24 along with EMRS arrived on the scene and found the taxi lying on its roof up against a robot near the intersection. The school children were found seated on [...]
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Eight people were injured after two minibus taxis crashed on Voortrekker Road, just before Vanguard Drive, in Goodwood. When emergency services arrived on the scene they found one of the taxis had smashed into a cement pillar of a car dealership as a result of the crash. Eight patients were treated on scene for minor [...]
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A man, estimated to be in his mid thirties, died after being hit by a train, near the Tygerberg Station, in Parow, this evening. When paramedics arrived on the scene the fire department was in attendance and had declared the man dead. He had suffered severe trauma and probably died on impact. The passenger train [...]
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SA Football Association vice president Shoes Mazibuko and former CEO Danny Jordaan have discovered monitoring devices fitted to their cars, the SABC reported on Tuesday. The two allegedly made the discovery earlier this month. SAFA president Kirsten Nemathandani said this came as a surprise to him because only the association’s fleet should be monitored for [...]
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The Gauteng Department of Community Safety has published the gazette reflecting the dates for the substitution of the GP number plates again. It was published in Provincial Gazette No 137 of 7 July 2010, notice number 1921. The gazette has not been implemented yet, but the schedule of when the new numbers must be displayed, [...]
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A thirty three-year-old armed response officer was injured after the vehicle he was driving overturned and hit a lamppost, on the corners of Third Avenue and Smith Street, in Parow. Bystanders alleged that the armed response car had to swerve to miss another car that jumped a stop-street. The armed response car then overturned on [...]
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A collision between an Uno and a Toyota Fortuna, on Vissershok Road, near the N7, left one person dead and another injured this morning. The male driver of the Uno, estimated to be in his late twenties, was trapped in the vehicle and dead on arrival of emergency services. The body of the man needed [...]
