Two single vehicle accident where the vehicles rolled and a third accident involving 3 cars has left 9 patients with various injuries in the Durban and surrounding areas. The first of the three, occurring on the N2 near the Spaghetti Junction, happened shortly after 11 pm mere meters from where a pedestrian had been knocked down and [...]
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A collision involving two light motor vehicles on the M7 Durban bound near Winston Churchill off ramp has left one person dead, another person in a critical condition and two others are in a serious condition this afternoon. ER24 and the Provincial ambulance service arrived on the scene; they found one car on its roof [...]
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Almost a week after the horrific accident where approximately 30 cars slammed into one another in Durban, another multiple car pile up has occurred. The M13 heading into Durban, bust before the Everton road off ramp had to be closed for a short while this morning as a truck, seemingly not being able to stop, [...]
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A man was shot dead when two men tried to hijack his car on Wednesday morning in Reservoir Hills, Durban, KwaZulu-Natal police said. “The 76-year-old man was shot in the chest and died in his car. Two men were allegedly trying to hijack his Toyota Corrolla,” Lieutenant Colonel Vincent Mdunge said. Police believe they panicked [...]
Two men are lucky to have only sustained minor injuries after their vehicle crashed through a residential wall and into a pool. The home owners explained that the pool has only recently been drained, and that if there had been water in the pool the fate of the two men could have been a lot [...]
One person is in a critical condition and another two have sustained serious injuries after an accident at the intersection of Russell and Leopard street in Durban CBD involving a delivery van and a truck this morning. ER24 paramedics arrived on the scene to find two patients entrapped in the delivery van and another patient [...]
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Fourteen people were injured, two seriously, when the minibus taxi they were travelling in collided head-on with a bus on the M35 near Philani Valley in Umbumbulu today. It is thought that the minibus had been attempting to overtake another slow moving vehicle and had pulled into the oncoming lane. The bus driver unable to [...]
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Eleven passengers of a minibus taxi were injured when the vehicle veered from Prospecton Road and collided with an electricity pole near the Wilcox Road junction this morning. It is alleged that the fully laden minibus taxi had been travelling south towards Isipingo when the driver lost control of the vehicle. It swerved across oncoming [...]
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A seven vehicle pile-up on Umbilo Road near the Sarnia Road junction left twenty five people injured, three seriously, this morning. It is thought that all seven vehicles, three of which were fully laden minibus taxis, were travelling west on Umbilo Road when a car leading the group braked harshly to avoid traffic calming. Like [...]
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An out-of-control articulated truck laid waste to three cars and a house on Durban North’s Longwood Drive, leaving seven people seriously injured this afternoon. It is thought that the truck, fully laden with a cargo of carbonated softdrinks, had been travelling on Longwood Drive towards Rinaldo Road. It is though that mechanical failure may have [...]
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