A teenager was killed this evening in an alleged hit and run motor vehicle accident.
According to ER24 Paramedics on scene the mother of the young boy had bought her son the scooter only two days earlier. Allegedly the teenager, a 19 year old resident of Elsisriver, was traveling on Halt rd in the direction of [...]

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Two pedestrians were killed when they were struck by a spinning car on the N2 south bound carriageway on the Umkomaas River Bridge this morning.
While what transpired remains unclear, it is alleged that three cars had collided while travelling south. The vehicles spun-out and veered towards the pedestrians who were walking at the roadside near [...]

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One person died and two others, including a child, were injured when a bakkie overturned on the R304, near the Lichtenberg Road crossing, at the back of Durbanville.
When emergency services arrived on the scene they found a lady, estimated to be in her late twenties, had been ejected from the bakkie and was in a [...]

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A man believed to be in his early thirties died horrifically on Sunday evening on the R59 between Sasolburg and Vereeniging when his vehicle collided with a truck.
Shortly before 17:00 paramedics arrived on the scene and found a cargo truck wedged against the remains of a vehicle. Paramedics explained that the vehicle was severely mangled.
Bystanders [...]

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An articulated truck carrying fruit lost its load this morning, after it took the on ramp to the N2 from the M7.
Emergency personnel arrived on the scene, to find the trailer lying on its side blocking one of the two lanes going onto the freeway. No injuries were reported on the scene but traffic [...]

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The South African National Taxi Council on Monday said it fears renewed tensions between rival groups in the South Peninsula could spread.
Three taxi drivers who were involved in a stand off with illegal operators appeared in the Wynberg Magistrate’s Court on Monday.
They were arrested last week following a flare up of taxi violence over [...]

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The government is considering making third party insurance for motorists compulsory, reports say.
Transport Minister S’bu Ndebele said this in reply to a question in Parliament on Thursday.
Between 65 and 70 percent of the estimated 9.4 million vehicles on SA roads do not have third party insurance, reported Beeld newspaper.
Ndebele said his department would first have [...]

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A driver and two passengers have sustained serious injuries after the truck they were in left the road and went down a hundred meter embankment before coming to rest on its side this morning. The incident took place on the R13 coming down in the vicinity of Polly Shorts.
ER24 paramedics arrived on the scene to [...]

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Three people have been seriously injured and another person has sustained minor to moderate injuries after a collision on the M13 Durban bound near Gillets / Everton on ramp involving a Toyota SUV and a KIA this morning.
ER24 paramedics arrived on the scene to find the Kia lying on its side in the emergency lane [...]

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Working for the emergency medical services, one always seems to see and treat human related injury and illness. More and more we note that animals are directly involved in some of these incidents that lead to our medical treatment being necessary.
As human beings, and as part of our nature, most of us cannot help but [...]

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