Accident in Queen Nandi Drive
A driver and passenger are in a serious condition after the delivery van that they were travelling in over turned on Queen Nandi Drive in the centre medium this morning.
ER24 arrived on the scene to find the panel van lying in the centre medium of the duel road with its contents [...]
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Tread depth meters are no longer necessary to monitor the condition of modern tyres. This is the view of Mandy Lovell, Bridgestone South Africa’s Public Relations Manager “In past years, people used a tread depth meter or other ways to determine whether their tyres were still legal,” she explained.
“Some of these other methods included the [...]
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Twenty one people were injured when a bus collided into the back of a Toyota Quantum Taxi on the N2, just before Vanguard Drive, in the direction of Cape Town.
The patients sustained minor to moderate injuries and were taken to various surrounding hospitals for further medical treatment.
The cause of the collision is unknown but it [...]
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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