11 March 2010
The N1 South highway in Pretoria was closed to motorists on Thursday morning for safety reasons, the City of Tshwane said.
“The N1 direction south has been closed again due to the dismantling of the crane on the N1 at Atterbury Road,” said spokesperson Console Tleane.
“It was found not to be safe to [...]
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A passenger from a taxi and a driver from a bakkie have sustained serious injuries after a collision on the Old Main Road this afternoon.
ER24 paramedics arrived on the scene to find the taxi in the left hand lane of the road, while the bakkie was across two lanes of the duel road. The driver [...]
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Bryanston – 84% of South Africans ‘cannot live’ without their cell phone. This is according to latest findings by market research company, Synovate.
Synovate interviewed metropolitan South Africans from the ages 16 and older, falling into LSMs 4 upwards about all things mobile: attitudes towards them, use (and abuse) of them, their mobile wishlists; as well [...]
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We would like to share the scary truth of the impact of worn tyres on this Blog. The pictures pretty much tell the story; these photos are from 9 different incidents from November 2009 up until February 2010. Only four months or so.
And they only cover Randburg, Midrand, N1 and one incident in Greenside. Consider [...]
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JSE-listed fleet management company DigiCore is set to launch a personal tracking unit in time for the Fifa Soccer World Cup.
However, DigiCore is still feeling the effects of the global recession, which led to lower sales volumes and a change in the mix of items sold to lower margin units. The company sought to reduce [...]
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A fourth cyclist died in hospital after a bakkie drove into a group of cyclists near Oudtshoorn on Monday, a spokesperson said.
Xenophone Wentzel, spokesperson for the Western Cape provincial traffic department said the fourth victim died in hospital on Monday afternoon.
“Provincial traffic officers informed me about the death just after 14:00,” he said.
Two men and [...]
Melbourne was bracing itself on Sunday for further storms after a mini-cyclone ripped through Australia’s second largest city, bringing with it hail stones the size of tennis balls.
The storm dumped heavy rain across the southern state of Victoria, and smashed into the regional capital with winds of up to 100km/h, cutting power to 100 000 [...]
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Five people were killed in a collision between a truck and a car in the Free State, paramedics said on Sunday.
Details were unclear of how the 18-wheeler truck collided with the car on the R70 between Senekal and Ventersburg late on Saturday night, said ER24 spokesperson Werner Vermaak.
Paramedics arrived on the scene shortly after 23:00 [...]
At least one man was killed and four others were injured in a collision on the R28/N14 Pinehaven Interchange this evening.
Bystanders on the scene explained to paramedics that approximately 23:00 a truck traveling down the hill from Krugersdorp smashed into vehicles at the intersection.
It is understood that the truck tried to avoid the collision and [...]
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85 Children were injured and two others were killed in a horror accident on Church Street extension in Limpopo this morning.
It is understood that a truck collided with a bus and a taxi carrying 85 school children at the time. A VW Caddy and an Opel Corsa was also involved in the collision. Two of [...]
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