UPDATE – Four people die in accident on N17 Road – woman stuck in traffic gives birth
ER24 confirmed the deaths of four people.
UPDATE: 7 April – 8.27pm
Four people died in the accident that happened earlier this evening 7 April.
Four men were found lying around one vehicle while a woman and two children were seated near the other vehicle.
Medics assessed the patients and found that three men had already succumbed to their injuries.
ER24 medics provided the critically injured man with advanced life support interventions.
They then transported him to the Ermelo Provincial Hospital, but sadly he died in hospital later.
According to emergency services, Igagu Emergency Services transported the two children and one female patient (the childrens’ mother) to the Ermelo Provincial Hospital with minor injuries.
ER24 was then called back to the scene as an eight-month pregnant woman – commuting in a taxi that was stuck in the traffic congestion, went into labour.
The woman got into the ambulance and the paramedic had to deliver the baby en route to hospital.
The woman and baby were then admitted to Ermelo Provincial Hospital.
Read the complete article in the Highvelder Newspaper.
7 April – 6.12pm
Two vehicles were involved in an accident outside Ermelo on the Bethal Road (N17) on 7 April.
The accident occurred just after the toll plaza and the road was closed off as emergency services attended to patients on the scene.
Needless to say, traffic came to a standstill.
The road has in the meantime been opened again.
ER24, Msukaligwa Fire and Rescue, Ermelo Police, Van Wettens Towing Services, the Provincial Ambulance Services and traffic officials were on the scene.
It has not yet been confirmed whether there have been any casualties.
More information will follow, this is a developing story.
