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 grade [...]
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A 31 year old cyclist sustained critical injuries at an off- road track in the Bryanston area this morning. It is believed that the cyclist was training at the track and as he crossed a wooden bridge and he had to negotiate a very steep embankment with a sharp bend at the bottom.
The cyclist lost control [...]
A tractor driver was critically injured when his tractor overturned at the Benoni north agricultural holdings this afternoon. Details of this accident are still speculative however it is purported that he was trying to pull a tree stump from the ground when the tractor flipped .
Netcare 911 paramedics arrived on scene to find the driver [...]
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A 10 year old boy is fighting for his life in a Johannesburg hospital after falling off an 8 meter rock face in the Bocshkop area of Pretoria this afternoon. It is believed that the boy was jumping from the rock face next to a waterfall when he slipped and landed on the rocks [...]
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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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A 26 year old female had to be airlifted to a hospital after she came off her quad bike in a remote area in Murray Park Springs this afternoon at around 18h00.
Exact details are still speculative, however is seems that a group of people were out on an off- road ride when the female [...]
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The Netcare 911 aero medical service proved to be valuable in the emergency treatment required to save the life of an elderly lady in the Kempton park area this morning.
Paramedics received a call for a lady that had collapsed with a possible cardiac condition at her Kempton park home at around 09h00 this morning. When [...]
A 60 year old man was critically injured and another seriously so, in a head on collision on the Olifants fontein road in front of the police station around 10h56 this morning.
Exact details of the accident is still a subject for police investigation. It appears however that a Toyota Corola and a taxi collided head on [...]
Two people died in a head on smash at around 14h18 this afternoon on the R59 near Sasolburg. Detail of the accident is still a subject for police investigation, however a Toyota Camry and a Audi collided head on .
On impact the Audi was flung over the barriers and the mangled wreck came to rest [...]
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A 3 year old boy is in a critical condition and his seven year old sister sustained serious injuries after a truck slammed into the side of a Landrover. Details of the accident is still for SAPS investigation, however it is believed that the truck came through the intersection, slammed into the side of the Landrover Discovery and [...]
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