Three people were critically injured in an accident on N2 (southbound) opposite Sunningdale on Wednesday afternoon.

Netcare 911 spokesperson Shawn Herbst said the accident involved a 14-wheeler truck, a bread truck and a light motor vehicle.

“The circumstances surrounding the accident are unclear at this stage. In the collision involving three vehicles, one of them, a bread truck, was pushed down a steep embankment and into a canal below. Three occupants of that vehicle had to be extricated and were transported to hospital in a critical condition.

“The driver of the 14-wheeler truck and the driver of the light motor vehicle escaped serious injury. As a result of the accident, traffic was brought to a standstill, and there is still a backlog stretching from as far back as the uMhlanga interchange,” he said.

In an accident last week in the same vicinity, two people were killed after two vehicles collided in a rear-end crash.