An employee at the Ekurhuleni department of environmental development died when the tractor she was driving turned over and fell on top of her, the municipality said on Tuesday. “Five colleagues who were present at the time, tried to rescue her from under the tractor but their efforts were not enough, spokesperson Zweli Dlamini said. [...]
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Pietermaritzburg ( Richmond ) R56 near Umkomas Valley. A 45yr old man has been killed while working on a broken down truck on the R56 near the Umkomas valley this afternoon. ER24 and EMRS arrived on the scene to find two trucks involved in a collision. The patient was found lying on the road after [...]
A municipal worker was seriously injured when she was struck by a hijacked car fleeing police on Kenville Road, Sea Cow Lake, this afternoon. It is thought that the woman had been working at the roadside cutting the grass when the hijacked vehicle rounded a bend at high speed with eThekwini Metro and South African [...]
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A construction worker was seriously injured when he fell nearly 10 meters from a scaffold at an Umhlanga, Durban, construction site shortly before noon today. It is thought that the man had been moving from one piece of scaffolding to another when he fell, landing on a level below. Netcare 911 Paramedics were called to [...]
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This morning Netcare 911 rushed to the scene of an accident in Teakwood road just outside Durban. On arrival paramedics found that a heavy goods truck was stopped by the traffic department for an infringement when the load of wood fell of the back of the truck and landed on the conductor of the truck. With the pile [...]
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