A truck driver, a driver of the light motor vehicle and his passenger have sustained serious injuries after a runaway truck collided into the light motor vehicle and another truck on the N3 North bound near the Chatterton off ramp this afternoon in Pietermaritzburg. ER24 paramedics arrived on the scene, to find an articulated truck [...]
It is clear that transport to Durban by road for many commuters has become expensive but paramedics never thought that they would find a man stuck under a truck near the spare wheel, while it was travelling towards Durban this afternoon. ER24 paramedics were called to the M13 Durban Bound just past Hillcrest this afternoon [...]
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ER24 paramedics were called to the scene of an accident on Douglas road, approximately sixty kilometres outside of Kimberley towards the town of Douglas. They arrived on scene to find tar gravel stones covering the road, and the three occupants of the truck standing around with a look of disbelief on their faces. As paramedics [...]
A driver and two passengers have sustained serious injuries after the truck they were in left the road and went down a hundred meter embankment before coming to rest on its side this morning. The incident took place on the R13 coming down in the vicinity of Polly Shorts. ER24 paramedics arrived on the scene [...]
A truck driver was injured after the truck he was travelling in overturned on the Wartburg road this morning. ER24 paramedics arrived on the scene to find the truck that was carrying sugar cane cuttings lying on its side. The driver was found outside the vehicle with a possible fractured ankle. Paramedics stabilised the patient [...]
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A man to be in his mid to late thirties has been killed in a freak truck accident on Riddick road in Reservoir Hills this morning. ER24 and EMRS arrived on the scene to find a tipper truck lying on its side, completely blocking the road to traffic. When emergency personnel approached the cabin of [...]
Twelve people were injured when a taxi crashed into the back of a truck on Koeberg Road, near Democracy Drive, in Milnerton. The front passenger of the taxi was trapped in the vehicle and needed to be extricated by rescue crews from the Fire Department using hydraulic rescue equipment. All the patients sustained minor to [...]
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One person is in a serious condition while another three people have sustained minor to moderate injuries after a collision involving two trucks on the N2 North Bound near Claire road bridge this morning. ER24 paramedics arrived on the scene to find an articulated truck up against the concrete barrier with the cabin completely disintegrated. [...]
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A bus and truck collided in Parow this morning at the corners of Industrial and Ring Roads. The bus allegedly impacted the truck head on. The three occupants of the tuck sustained minor to moderate injuries while the ten to fifteen occupants of the bus all sustained minor injuries. All of the patients on scene [...]
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Two people are in a critical condition, another eight have sustained serious injuries and eight more have sustained minor to moderate injuries after a taxi collided into a truck on Old Main road near the M13 Fields Hill this afternoon. Er24 paramedics arrived on the scene to find Old Main road leaving Pinetown closed to [...]
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