One dead, 11 injured in Christmas accidents
There were four serious accidents in the Highway area over the Christmas period.
ONE man died and 11 other people were injured in accidents across the Highway area over the Christmas period.
A man in his twenties died when his car crashed into a steel structure on the M19, Durban bound, before the N2 this morning.
According to Rescue Care’s operations director, Garrith Jamieson, paramedics responded to the accident at 6.15am. “A single vehicle left the road and crashed. A man was trapped in the wreckage,” said Jamieson. The man was declared dead at the scene.
On Tuesday morning a bakkie and a taxi collided near Inanda Dam. Netcare 911 paramedics responded to the accident. “Reports indicate the a taxi collided into the side of the bakkie,” said Chris Botha of Netcare 911.
Six people suffered injuries that ranged from minor to serious and were treated at the scene.
In a separate incident on Monday afternoon, a man crashed into a storm water drain along Brackenhill Road in Waterfall.
According to Chris Botha, Netcare 911 paramedics treated the twenty-nine-year-old man’s injuries at the scene.
On Christmas eve, four people were injured when a vehicle overturned on Field’s Hill. Netcare911 paramedics and a Netcare911 rescue officer worked alongside other services on scene to stabilise the injured before they were taken to various hospitals.
