Nine injured in accident on Atlas Road
All of the injured were transported to Sunshine and Tambo Memorial Hospital respectively
Nine people were injured in a collision between a bakkie and car on the corner of Atlas and Elizabeth roads in Boksburg on Friday night.
Werner Vermaak of ER24 said said shortly after 9pm paramedics arrived on the scene where they found people scattered across the intersection. It is understood that eight people were in the bakkie and three in the car at the time of the collision.
The majority of the people that were sitting in the back of the bakkie were ejected during the collision.
Three people from the car were treated for moderate injuries on scene before they were transported to hospital. Six people from the bakkie were treated for various injuries. The front passenger of the bakkie had to be freed from the wreckage by the local fire department.
Three people from the bakkie were assessed on scene, but later declined to be transported to hospital.
All of the injured were transported to Sunshine and Tambo Memorial Hospital respectively. The exact cause of the collision is not yet known.
