Emergency helicopter will improve route patrol and accident response service
The N4 Toll Route experiences high traffic volumes during the Easter weekend, with the majority of traffic making use of the Middelburg Toll Plaza. In an attempt to create a safer route and provide the best possible emergency response to victims of accidents, TRAC operates the [...]
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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 to the [...]
Eight people were injured in a collision on the N1, approximately ten kilometres past the Huguenot Tunnel, in the direction of Worcester.
One patient was in a serious condition and was airlifted to hospital by the ER24-Discovery Medicopter. Another seven patients were transported by ambulances to Worcester Medi-Clinic with minor injuries.
The exact details around the collision [...]
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 [...]
