Cars roll after collision on Veld Street at Blue Gill
One person was killed in an accident on the N1
TWO drivers were lucky to escape without serious injuries when their vehicles collided outside Blue Gill Estate on Veld Street in Glen Marais early Sunday morning.
According to Ona Ndala of Gauteng 911 they received reports of a serious car accident around 4am.
On arrival paramedics found both vehicles had overturned and one driver was injured. He was treated on the scene and transported to hospital.
The Hyundai ended up over 50m from where the collision occurred. The Citi Golf was split in half. Luckily the driver left the accident with a little scratch on the leg, Ndala said.
In another accident on Saturday evening around 5.30pm one person was killed and 12 others injured when a car rear-ended a bakkie at a high-speed on the N1 north at the Allandale Road off-ramp.
According to Emer-G-Med the bakkie was transporting a number of passengers in the back. A man, who had been ejected from the bakkie, was found to have sustained critical injuries. Unfortunately while working to stabilise the man, his heart stopped beating.
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Paramedics immediately began CPR and performed full advanced life support resuscitation. Unfortunately they were unable to get a pulse and declared the patient dead on the scene.
Twelve others, including four children, sustained injuries ranging from minor to serious. Paramedics triaged and treated the patients before they were transported to various private ambulance services to a number of nearby medical facilities, several of them under advanced life support care.
On Tuesday morning traffic on Pretoria Road were held up when four cars collided at the intersection with Beukes Road. No-one was injured, Gauteng 911 said.
