In a spate of an hour during the morning rush hour, ER24 paramedics have assisted in treating over forty six people in two separate taxi accidents in the Durban area. The first accident took place on the N2 north bound heading towards Nandi Drive near the Inanda Road Bridge. A taxi travelling in the right [...]
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A tragic accident has occurred on the R103 between Nottingham and Mooiriver roads leaving a man and an 8 year old child deceased. As paramedics arrived at the scene they noticed a construction truck which was lying on its side across the two lanes of the road and a double cab bakkie crushed up against [...]
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With only two days to go to the start of the very first TRAC National Junior & U-16 Cycle Tour in Mpumalanga, Old Joe (the iconic landmark in Schoemanskloof) changed his colours to show his allegiance to this tour. While cyclists will be competing for the coveted “King of the Mountains” jersey, Old Joe can [...]
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We would like to share an email that the Arrive Alive website has received from a disgruntled road user: “I was on my way to Woodmead shopping centre on Saturday 26 March around 11:43. At the intersection of North Way and Old Pretoria Road we experienced some lawlessness and thoroughly offensive behavior. The Toyota in [...]
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Around seventy of the country’s top junior cyclists and a team from Namibia have entered in the first TRAC National Junior & U-16 Cycle Tour to be hosted in Mpumalanga. The cyclists and their support teams will arrive in Nelspruit on Wednesday, 30 March for final registration and preparation. The tour is hosted over four [...]
A man in his 30′s has been seriously injured after crashing his car on the N1 just after the William Nicol Drive exit. We don’t know what caused the man to initially lose control of his car, but it seems that he collided with the barrier and then spun out of control. When the ER24 [...]
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North West police have confirmed the death of seven people in a road accident involving two vehicles in Slurry near Mahikeng last night. The South African Police Services spokesperson Adel Myburgh says five people in the car and two in the bakkie died on the scene. She could not confirm the reported death of two [...]
The driver of a truck and car were very lucky to escape with minor injuries after the truck drove over the front of a Peugeot. An eyewitness to this incident said that it appeared that something on the back of the truck started to burn when the driver of the truck jumped out of the [...]
The Top Gear show this year was spectacular and it saw the likes of popular 94.7-Highveld stereo DJ Paul Rotherham taking a flight in one of the Gabriel aerobatic planes. The Gabriel Wings Aerobatic pilots took Paul his dad Nigel on a hair-raising flight whilst Sean and Kevin Rogers, CEO and GM respectively of Control [...]
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The simple act of blowing into a breathalyser will improve safety for the lives of many South Africans. Within the work environment and out on the roads, blowing into your own breathalyser or that of the company will reduce the risk of alcohol related accidents occurring. According to WHO’s report for 2010, 4% of deaths [...]
