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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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 [...]
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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A man is lucky to be alive after he collided into the side of a heavy goods vehicle tonight just after 20:00 on the R25 near the Witkoppies off ramp. It is purported that the heavy goods truck came out of a side road and crossed the R25 in front of an on coming car. [...]
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Nine people are in a serious condition while another nine have sustained minor to moderate injuries after a head on collision this afternoon on the N3 Pietermaritzburg bound just after the Hammersdale on ramp.
ER24 paramedics arrived on the scene to find two bakkie’s in the north bound of the freeway about 10m away from each [...]
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A woman was seriously injured when the bakkie she was travelling overturned on the N2 north bound carriageway on Umbongintwini Hill outside Amanzimtoti on Friday morning.
It is thought that the vehicle had been travelling towards Durban when the driver swerved to avoid colliding with a slow moving vehicle in the fast lane. The bakkie collided with [...]
An articulated truck driver was seriously injured when his cab, which was not carrying a load, left the M13 Durban bound carriageway near Shongweni before overturning.
The vehicle came to rest in the grassed centre median on its side. The driver sustained possible head and spinal injuries and was treated by Netcare911 Advanced Life Support Paramedic [...]
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