Twelve School Children Injured After Taxi Rolled. A taxi carrying school children has rolled at the intersection of Old Main and Ottovolk road this afternoon. ER24 along with EMRS arrived on the scene and found the taxi lying on its roof up against a robot near the intersection. The school children were found seated on [...]
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Road Safety should start with creating awareness amongst our youngest of road users! ER24′s North branch medics paid a visit to a nursery school in Midrand at the end of May. They showed the ambulance to about 100 little ones who were delighted with the experience! Thanks go out to those involved! Also view: Road [...]
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There are many dangers on and off the road that surround today’s children. While the more common ones like child-proofing harmful substances or not talking to strangers are routinely addressed, sometimes it’s the ones we don’t think about that can bring about a worst case scenario. Each year, approximately 37 children die from hyperthermia while [...]
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Two girls aged between eight and ten years old have been knocked down by a light motor vehicle at the corners of Westcliff and Railview road in Chatsworth while waiting outside their school this morning. ER24 arrived on the scene to find the one girl lying in on the pavement, while the second girl was [...]
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Some of the saddest calls that paramedics attend to are involving children. It is heartbreaking to find that an innocent child has been injured, often due to another person’s ignorance or negligence. Not only do we want to stress that all small children should be placed in some sort of car seat or booster seat [...]
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Seventeen primary and pre-primary school children were injured when the taxi they were traveling in overturned on CR Swart road in Kempton Park this morning. When paramedics from Netcare 911 and other services arrived on scene they found all the wounded at the side of the roadway. After triaging the patients they found that a [...]
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A mother and her one year old daughter died and six others where injured in a horrific accident on the N12 near Daveyton this morning just after 05h00. Although exact details of the accident is still a subject for police investigation, it is believed that one of the vehicles lost control hurtled across the centre [...]
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This afternoon 13 school children were injured after attending an expo at the ICC. It is believed that the children from Inanda high school were attending an expo at the ICC and when they finished they went to a parking lot across the road to take a taxi back to their school. After the taxi loaded the children he [...]
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This afternoon Netcare 911 rushed to the scene of an accident on Leham drive Phoenix. 5 Children between the ages of 12 and 15 years old were walking on the sidewalk after leaving school when a vehicle lost control and crashed into the children. Three of them sustained serious injuries and a further 2 sustained minor injuries. They were treated on [...]
This morning at 07h11 Netcare 911 rushed to the scene of an accident in Booth road. On arrival at the scene they found that two motor vehicles had collided leaving five children between the ages of 6 and 8 years old injured. 2 Children sustained serious injuries and 3 only minor injuries . All the patients were treated on scene and [...]
