Cyclist critical after collision
RANDPARK RIDGE - 40 year old cyclist is airlifted to hospital after being knocked down.
A 40-year-old man is in a critical condition after he was knocked off his bicycle by a light motor vehicle on the corner of Essenhout and Randpark Drives in the morning of 5 May. Vitalmed spokesperson Tania du Toit explained, “Our advanced life support paramedics transported the patient to [the] Beyers Naude [Drive] and Malope Road intersection where the ER24 helicopter could land.”
The man was airlifted to Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Academic Hospital for urgent medical treatment. Du Toit added that paramedics arrived on the accident scene and found the cyclist lying in the road with his bicycle lying a few metres away. The motor vehicle that had collided with the cyclist had parked off to the side of the road about 100m away.
On assessment, paramedics discovered that the patient had sustained multiple fractures and lay in a critical condition.
The cause of the accident is under Police investigation.
