Fourteen commuters were injured, 2 seriously when two taxis collided along Chloorkop road in Kempton Park on Sunday afternoon. Exact details of the accident is still speculative, however one taxi smashed into the rear of another taxi causing the driver to lose control and overturn.
Netcare 911 and provincial paramedics arrived on scene and after the initial [...]

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Six people were injured, three critically, when their vehicle left Bellair Road near the Cato Manor Police station and collided with wooden fencing at the roadside.
A six metre long length of a wooden pole, similar to those used for telephone poles, was wedged in the car from front to back. Moreover a man walking on [...]

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37 people were injured, one critically so after the bus they were traveling in overturned on the N12 near Warrenton just after 11h00 this morning. Exact details of the accident is still a subject for police investigation, however it is reported that the bus driver lost control after a strong cross wind hit them.
The bus [...]

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A police officer sustained a gunshot wound in an armed robbery at the intersection of Republic and Jan Smuts roads in Randburg at around 08h30 this morning. Detail of the robbery is still for police investigation, however it is believed that the suspects engaged in a shoot out with a metro police officer after robbing [...]

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One man was killed when he was clipped by a light motor vehicle and resultantly thrown beneath the wheels of an articulated truck on Durban’s South Coast Road near Mobeni at noon.
While first hand accounts of what transpired were unavailable, it is believed the man had been crossing the busy roadway when he was clipped [...]

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Thirty five workers were injured when the bus transporting them slammed into the side of an articulated truck after its breaks failed on Maydon Road, Maydon Wharf, Durban this evening.
The bus had been travelling along Francois Road towards the harbour and while approaching a traffic signal on a steep incline, the driver could not stop [...]

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Netcare 911 rushed to the scene of a taxi accident on the Jan Smuts Highway at around midday. When paramedics arrived on scene we found that a taxi collided with a vehicle, lost control and overturned slamming into a tree.
Six passengers were injured in this accident 3 seriously and 3 with minor injuries. One patient was taken to the Netcare St [...]

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Tonight at around 18h30 Netcare 911 rushed to a 3 car pile- up on the M4 near the Umhloti Lagoon. On arrival paramedics witnessed the horrific damage to the vehicles and prepared themselves for the worst.
They were pleasantly surprised though as only two people sustained injuries and non of them were critical. The patients were treated on scene and then transported to a [...]

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On Friday afternoon I was driving back from Guateng. As we came down Town Hill on the N3 South a vehicle some 100 meters in front of us had lost control, hit an embankment and started to somersaulted through the air and as it hit the road the children was flung out of the vehicle. A little [...]

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Netcare 911 rushed to the scene of a horrific accident on Newlands West Drive near the new shopping centre. A Toyota Tazz and a Opel Cadet collided with a side impact. Sadly the driver of the one vehicle died on scene due to the severity of his injuries while the other driver sustained serious injuries. He was treated on [...]

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