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 [...]
Sixteen people were injured, two seriously , when the taxi they were travelling in left the road and collided with a light pole before coming to rest against a tree on Isundu Drive, Amanzimtoti, outside Durban this evening. Had the vehicle not been stopped by the tree, it may have rolled down an embankment which [...]
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This morning 45 people were injured when a department of correctional services bus lost control on the N3 south in the Balgowen area. It is believed that the bus was on route from Newcastle to Pietermaritzburg when the driver lost control, overturned and came to rest in a grass area next to the road. Paramedics from [...]
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This afternoon Netcare 911 and the provincial services rushed to the scene of a mining accident in Hating Spruit. On arrival they found that 15 people had been injured. Netcare 911 transported 6 patients to the Dundee provincial hospital – two of them with more than 40 % burns to there body’s and in a critical condition [...]
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Netcare 911 and all the emergency services rushed to the scene of a truck accident on the R61 near Sandwich Port at around 11H30. On arrival they found that the truck had plunged through a bridge and landed in a river. The truck virtually disappeared under the water. A rescue system was quickly set up [...]
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Last night at around midnight Netcare 911 rusged to the cuttings beach in Merebank for a child that had fallen from a concrete wall into the canal from a height of about 6 meters . It appeared that the children from a hostel was taken to the beach and while they were playing this [...]
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