A man suffered a significant injury today at one of the quarries in Contermanskloof. The man, a gentleman in his fifties, is employed as a truck driver at the quarry. At approximately 12:00 this afternoon the man parked his truck and exited the vehicle on the driver’s side when another truck collided with his, pinning [...]
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A road worker has been left in a critical condition after being involved in an alleged hit and run incident in Fourways. It is believed that the man was working on the roadside, on the corners of Witkoppen and Main Road in Fourways, when a passing vehicle struck him and sped off. ER24 paramedics responded [...]
Three construction workers are fighting for there lives in the Netcare Union and the Arwyp hospital after they plummeted 7 stories to the ground at a Kempton park construction site this morning. Exact details of what caused them to fall is still a subject for department of labour investigation. Fortunately advanced life support Paramedics and [...]
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This afternoon at around 15 00 Netcare 911 and the Fire services rushed to the scene of an accident on the N2 South in Amanzimtoti. When we arrived on scene we found that a corsa bakkie collided into an embankment then rolled several times and landed on its roof with the driver trapped in the wreckage. Firemen [...]
This afternoon I had the opportunity to fly on the Netcare 911 “eye in the sky” and soon after lift-off we spotted an accident on the Olifantsfontein road with no emergency services in attendance. We managed to land so that the flight paramedic could treat the patients while the road crews were on route. Two heavy [...]
This morning Netcare 911 rushed to the scene of an accident in the Kwadukuza area. On arrival at the N2 North at the Salt Rock turn – off they were faced with a 60 ton truck carrying milk that overturned into a trench, trapping [...]
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At approximately 23h09 on Saturday night 16 May 2009, Netcare 911 paramedics responded to reports of a very serious collision on London road in Alexandra, north of Johannesburg. Upon arrival, paramedics found that a tanker truck carry two empty Lucerne tanks had been involved in a head-on collision with [...]
