Late night crash injures two
One person was seriously injured while another suffered minor injuries in a crash late on Wednesday.
AN hour long intense rescue took place on Wednesday, 10 December at about 10.30pm after two vehicles collided on the N3 Durban bound near the Pavilion Shopping Centre.
Rescue Care paramedics said they arrived on scene to find one of the vehicles had left the roadway and gone up an embankment and came to rest on a boulder, with the driver still inside the wreckage, after the initial crash.
“Assessing the scene, paramedics found the vehicle to be unstable to extricate the driver and opted to call in the SAPS Search and Rescue Unit, as well as the Durban Fire Department. Once they arrived, rescue officials used hydraulic equipment to stabilise the vehicle and then paramedics entered the vehicle. Once inside the car, they treated the driver.
“He was then carefully extricated from the wreckage very carefully. The other driver also sustained slight injuries and was treated by Rescue Care paramedics. Both men were then transported to a nearby hospital,” said Garrith Jamieson, spokesman for Rescue Care.
At this stage it is unclear what caused the collision, however, SAPS were on the scene and will be investigating the incident.
