A man is lucky to be alive after he collided into the side of a heavy goods vehicle tonight just after 20:00 on the R25 near the Witkoppies off ramp. It is purported that the heavy goods truck came out of a side road and crossed the R25 in front of an on coming car. [...]
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An articulated truck driver was seriously injured when his cab, which was not carrying a load, left the M13 Durban bound carriageway near Shongweni before overturning.
The vehicle came to rest in the grassed centre median on its side. The driver sustained possible head and spinal injuries and was treated by Netcare911 Advanced Life Support Paramedic [...]
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A collision involving an articulated truck and a bakkie on the M7 Edwin Swales Drive this morning left five people injured, one man critically.
It is thought that the articulated truck with no load had been heading west when the bakkie turned across its path in the Titren Road junction. The truck slammed into the bakkie [...]
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Two people were critically injured when their truck hurtled out of control, “T” boned a car and then smashed through a brick wall. The crumpled remains of the truck finally came to rest against a house at the intersection of Ouklip and Ruhamal roads in the Albertein area of Roodepoort this morning at around 09h00. [...]
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10 workers were injured in an accident [5 seriously], when a 2 ton truck collided with the concrete barriers on the R21 south near the R25 off- ramp this afternoon. The truck with 13 workers was traveling along the R21 when the driver lost control and smashed into the barriers.
The force of the impact flung all the [...]
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Some excellent driving skill from a heavy goods truck driver saved the lives of several people on the Voortrekker road bridge where it crosses the N12 this afternoon. The truck was traveling along Voortrekker road approaching the intersection to the N12. Cars in front of him had stopped at the traffic lights and when the driver [...]
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Two people are in a critical condition after the heavy goods truck they were traveling left the roadway and overturned. Exact details of the accident is still speculative however the truck was traveling on the N1 and about 20 kilometres outside Springfontein in the Colesburg direction, veered of the road and overturned.
Netcare 911 paramedics and the [...]
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17 people were injured 5 seriously when the taxi they were traveling in collided with a truck at the intersection of Modderfontein and Alexandra roads this afternoon.
Exact details of the accident is still unclear and remains a subject for police investigation. An eyewitness account of the accident is that the truck was crossing Modderfontein road [...]
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Two people lost their lives and two others were critically injured in a 3 vehicle snarl up on the N1 near the Malibongwe turn off an hour ago. Exact details of the accident is still speculative, however it is purported that the 10 ton construction vehicle with a load of tar was slowing in [...]
A man miraculously survived after he smashed into the back of a heavy goods vehicle on the M near the New Road off ramp at around 23h00 tonight. Exact details are still speculative, but the driver of the truck recalls feeling a jolt and when he looked in his review mirror he saw a vehicle [...]
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