Posts Tagged ‘accidents’

Umhlanga head-on smash kills one, injures another

A man was killed and a woman seriously injured when a bakkie and a car collided head-on on Umhlanga Rocks Drive near the CBD this afternoon. The cause of the accident remains unclear and will form the subject of a South African Police Force investigation. Paramedics arrived at the scene to find the two wrecked [...]

3 mineworkers killed in mining accidents

Three mineworkers died in separate accidents in the past two days, the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) said on Friday. One worker died on Friday morning at Impala Platinum in Rustenburg, North West. “The worker died after inhaling noxious gases in an old disused working place which the mine had planned to use as a [...]

Biker dies in Edenvale smash

A man in his twenties died in a motorcycle accident in Edenvale this morning. It is believed that the man was travelling along Terrace road in Edenvale when he collided into the back of a 1 ton Kia truck with such force that the bike slid under the truck and totally snapped the axel. The [...]

Zambian miners shot ‘by mistake’

China said on Tuesday that two Chinese coal mine managers who were arrested in Zambia for allegedly shooting 12 local workers had hurt the Zambians “mistakenly”. The two Chinese nationals have been charged with attempted murder for allegedly shooting randomly at the Zambian miners after they protested poor working conditions at their Chinese-run mine on [...]

Death and early morning accidents in Pretoria and Johannesburg

Three serious accidents in Pretoria and Johannesburg on Wednesday left one person dead and dozens more injured. A father taking his children to school was killed when his BMW was hit by a truck on Lynnwood Road in eastern Pretoria. The two youngsters were hurt. In another crash, around 40 people were injured when a [...]

Joy as first rescue drill reaches trapped Chile miners

The first of three rescue drills on Friday reached 33 Chilean miners trapped for six weeks 0.70 kilometres underground, but it will still take weeks to widen the shaft enough to extract the men. The miners greeted the arrival of the drillhead with an exhilarated message of thanks to their companions on the surface who [...]

Photos tell the truth of horrific taxi accidents

Too many people have recently lost family members and friends in taxi accidents. There have been promises by transport officials to clamp down on lawless taxi drivers and to stop more of these vehicles for safety checks! We would like to share 4 photos that tells the story of recent taxi mayhem!!

Taxi Accident Leaves One Dead

A child has been killed and six other commuters have sustained serious injuries after a taxi collided into the side of a farmer’s bakkie on the R617 near Underberg this afternoon. Emergency personnel arrived at the scene and found the taxi lying on its roof near the bakkie that was just a few meters away. [...]

Mayhem on the Roads of Cape Town

A number of serious motor vehicle collisions had ER24 paramedics and local traffic officials busy today. Accidents were located all around the peninsula ranging as far as Klein Brak in the Mosselbay area. The day’s carnage started early this morning when a bakkie collided with a small passenger vehicle on the N7 direction Malmesbury at [...]

Protect yourself from accidents at home

Home is the place you go to after a hard day’s work, somewhere you can go to relax and recuperate. I’m sure most of us think that our homes are indeed the safest place our loved one could be, whether a child, spouse or elderly parent. If one starts to think about potential hazards, a [...]