Cyclist suffers cardiac arrest at Hazeldean sport and recreation venue

A cyclist went into cardiac arrest while at the Cowhouse sports and recreation venue in Hazeldean on Saturday morning.

“An adult male cyclist got off his bicycle and went into cardiac arrest,” Netcare911 spokesperson Shawn Herbst said.

“A bystander performed CPR. The road crews achieved return of spontaneous circulation (ROSC) and called for the helicopter emergency medical service.”

Herbst said the patient was relatively unstable in flight and was transported to a nearby hospital where he was handed over to surgeons.

In a separate incident a man was killed when a car rolled on Malie Street in Andeon, in the Moot, this morning.

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An ER24 paramedic came across the accident scene on her way to work and dispatched the rest of the crews to the scene shortly before 05:00.

“The man was found lying a meter from the vehicle. Upon further assessment, it was found he sustained fatal injuries and was declared dead at the scene by paramedics,” ER24 spokesperson Ineke van Huyssteen said.

In another accident in Centurion, two people sustained fatal injuries following a two-vehicle collision on Midstream Drive in Midstream.

Van Huyssteen said ER24 paramedics arrived at the scene shortly before 20:00, where they found two patients inside one of the vehicles.

“Unfortunately, the man and the woman had sustained fatal injuries and they were declared dead at the scene by paramedics,” she said.

“The driver of the second vehicle sustained no injuries.”

The exact circumstances surrounding the two accidents were unknown.

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