A man is fighting for his life in the R. K. Khan Memorial Hospital after the taxi he was travelling in slammed into an articulated truck on the M1 Higginson Highway near Havenside this evening. The cause of the accident remains unclear and will form the subject of a South African Police Force investigation. Netcare911 [...]
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A woman was seriously injured when her vehicle slammed head-on into another on Durban’s Bluff Road late last night. It is alleged that two cars had been travelling towards one another when an errant party veered into oncoming traffic. After colliding both vehicles came to rest in the roadway. The female driver of a Toyota [...]
KwaZulu-Natal MEC for Transport, Willies Mchunu, called on outraged Umlazi residents to keep calm after two teenagers were killed when a police officer lost control of his car. In a statement, Mchunu said that the law was taking its course and pleaded with the community to allow police to investigate the incident without interference. “No [...]
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While rain has brought some respite to KwaZulu-Natal residents assailed by the heat of the last week, it has come part and parcel with a wave of motor vehicle accidents. Netcare911 Paramedics have responded to over fifteen accidents in locations across Durban and the province as a whole. We urge motorists to exercise extreme caution [...]
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A Durban North couple and one of their two sons were killed in a head-on collision on the R66 near Melmoth, Zululand, yesterday afternoon. Another boy was also critically injured and is fighting for his life at the Netcare Bay Hospital. It is thought that the two vehicles involved had ploughed into one another while [...]
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A high speed police chase through the Durban central business district came to a abrupt halt when the fleeing vehicle slammed into a SUV in the intersection of Goble and Umgeni Roads this morning. It is alleged that the driver of a Silver Opel Corsa bakkie had been involved in an accident near the city [...]
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This evening at around 18h30 Netcare 911 rushed to the scene of a horrific accident on the R603 near the M35. When we arrived we were faced with unbelievable carnage - two 4 x 4 vehicles collided head on but the debris were scattered over about 100 meters and [...]
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At around 19h00 last night Netcare 911 and the emergency services rushed to the scene of an accident at the Spine road bridge. On arrival they found that a vehicle crashed into the side of a taxi causing it to go down a ditch. Paramedics from 3 services were kept busy stabilising a total of 20 patients - 19 from [...]
It is our pleasure to provide more information on the newly elected Minister of Transport! Minister Joel Sibusiso Ndebele Personal Date of Birth: 17 October 1948 Previous Positions Premier of KwaZulu-Natal Province since 22 April 2004. Serves in the National Executive Committee (NEC) of the African National Congress (ANC) since 1997. [...]
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