Weekend accidents kill one, injure 47

Emergency services had their hands full with seven serious accidents on the North Coast this weekend.

One person was killed and 47 injured in the accidents, two of which were children.

The most serious accident happened on the R102 near Etete last night, where a taxi carrying employees from a Ballito shopping centre collided head on with a bakkie, killing one person and seriously injuring 16. Several passengers had to be cut out of the mangled taxi.

Two people were injured on the R74 highway in Stanger on Sunday night after a bakkie overturned and rolled down an embankment.

A driver lost control on the N2 south bound under the Ballito bridge on Sunday evening, leaving two adults and two children seriously injured.

Eleven people sustained serious injuries on the N2 near Zinkwazi on Saturday when a light delivery vehicle spun off the road.

A minibus rolled off the R74 highway in Stanger on Saturday afternoon, severely injuring 12 people.

A rear-end collision near Ballito on Saturday morning injured two people.
One person was injured in an accident near the King Shaka International Airport on Saturday.