Thirty-nine people have been killed each day on South Africa’s roads between December 1 and 26, the Road Traffic Management Corporation said on Thursday. A total of 1 023 people were killed over that period, in 853 crashes, spokesperson Ashref Ismail said. “Given the high number of major fatal crashes recorded this festive season as [...]
[Benoni 25 October 2011 08:00] Shortly before 8 am this morning a fully laden taxi rolled off New Modder Road in Benoni. Paramedics at the scene explained that the accident happened approximately 1 kilometer from the intersection with Snake Road. The taxi had rolled due to suspected mechanical failure and had landed on its wheels [...]
[Pretoria 16 September 2011 12:30] A woman has been killed and another 12 injured after 5 vehicles were involved in an accident on the N14 Ben Schoeman Highway near the Trichardt Road Crossing in the direction of Pretoria. The police who attended the scene will need to investigate the exact cause of the accident, but [...]
[Pietermaritzburg 11 September 2011 13:30] ER24 Pietermaritzburg crews have saved the life of a newborn baby after it was allegedly dumped in a toilet on Retief Street. The call was placed for a baby that was inside a toilet and when the paramedics arrived at the scene they were taken to where the woman had [...]
A taxi and Hyundai Getz collided into one another this morning at the corners of Broadway and 8th Streets in Kensington. ER24 paramedics that arrived first at the scene were immediately shown to where the 42 year old woman was lying near the passenger side of the Getz. The woman was in a critical condition [...]
A serious collision occurred this rainy morning on the N3 highway in the vicinity of Westville. A passenger vehicle had allegedly became stationary on the highway and pulled off to the yellow emergency lane for safety. Then without warning a large truck collided with the back of the vehicle. When ER24 paramedics arrived at the [...]
A critically injured man has managed to survive for almost 12 hours entrapped in his VW Golf which crashed off the N3, down an embankment, in Peacevale last night. It is believed that the accident happened at around 23h00 last night but paramedic and rescue services were only notified of the incident at around 10am [...]
South Africa would be a country based on ubuntu only when this became manifest on the roads, Transport Minister S’bu Ndebele said on Wednesday. Ndebele was speaking after nine taxi passengers burnt to death and four others were injured when their vehicle collided with a truck Braemar, KwaZulu-Natal, on Monday. “As South Africans, we pride [...]
Two people have been seriously injured while another two have sustained minor to moderate injuries after a collision involving two cars on New Greytown road just past Copesville this morning ER24 arrived on the scene to find two light motor vehicles involved in the collision and both in the middle of the road causing traffic [...]
One woman was killed and twenty others injured, one woman critically, when a minibus taxi and a car collided on the M4 south bound carriageway near the M7 Edwin Swales Drive Bridge this afternoon. It is thought that both vehicles were travelling away from the city when the minibus taxi sideswiped the car while executing [...]
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