Horror hits roads in north
Four lives were lost the past weekend during mass accidents on roads in the north of Pretoria.
A spate of horror road accidents claimed four lives in the north of Pretoria at the weekend.
A man and a woman burned to death in one of the crashes.
Debris littered the roads as paramedics attended to three accidents, each involving several vehicles, on Friday, Saturday and Sunday.
The worst accident happened on Friday night when passenger bus bulldozed through an accident scene on the N1 near Montana.
Best Care Ambulance service spokesperson Xander Loubser said this happened just after the Sefako Makgatho Drive (Zambezi) off-ramp.
Sinoville police spokesperson Warrant Officer Johan van Dyk said Tshwane metro police officers were attending to a light vehicle accident when the bus ploughed through several vehicles on scene.
“A metro-officer, standing on the scene, had to jump out of the way to avoid getting crushed by the vehicles,” Van Dyk said.
“She jumped over the barrier and broke her arm.”
One of the cars on scene caught fire after it was hit.
“Two people trapped inside burned to death,” Loubser told Rekord.
A passenger escaped from the burning car and was stabilised on scene.
He was taken to a hospital in Ga-Rankuwa to be treated for serious burn wounds and injuries.
“The woman and man who died in the burning wreckage are from Germiston,” Van Dyk said.
Their families were still in shock on Wednesday, and declined to speak to reporters.
The passenger of another vehicle on the scene was treated for slight injuries.
None of the about 50 passengers on the bus suffered any serious injuries, Loubser said.
“People were treated at the scene and transported to various hospitals.”
The second accident was on Saturday afternoon when ten people, including children, were injured.
Three cars crashed near the Wonderboom Junction in Paul Kruger Street.
Loubser said medics arrived around 17:00 and found five children and the five injured adults on scene.
Only slight injuries were reported. Police were still investigating the cause of the accident.
The third major accident was a three-car collision on the Mabopane freeway in Rosslyn in the early hours of Sunday morning.
Two men were killed.
Netcare 911 spokesperson, Chris Botha said paramedics arrived at the scene near the Wonderpark bridge and found debris strewn over a large part of the freeway.
“After attending to the injured, it was found two men died due to extensive injuries they sustained.”
He said two other people miraculously escaped with minor injuries.
The injured patients were treated at the scene before being transported to hospital.
“The exact detail to the cause of the crash will form part of a police investigation,” Botha said.
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