Holiday death toll climbs
There has been a spate of accidents over the past few days, leaving several people dead.
ROAD accidents seem to be reaching epidemic proportions on the South Coast. Last week, a horror smash on the R61 toll road left a honeymoon couple and a 15-year-old boy dead; a crash on the N2 near Hibberdene left a truck driver seriously injured; one person was seriously injured in a head-on collision in Pennington and in another devastating incident last Saturday, four members of the same family were killed in an accident at Wilson’s Cutting.
And this week, the trend continues. On Sunday, a woman was seriously injured after her vehicle veered off the N2 north and rolled several times down an embankment, the wreckage coming to rest on its roof in a swamp. Netcare 911 paramedics immobilised the patient before taking her to hospital.
On Sunday night, two goods trucks were involved in an accident on the N2 northbound near Umzinto, and a vehicle with two occupants flipped in the southbound lane. It is not known how many people were injured. In another major accident on the same night on the R56 at the top Ixopo intersection, three minibuses and a car collided. KZN EMS, SAPS, the fire department and the road traffic inspectorate responded to the
scene and found two people dead and 33 injured, 19 of them seriously. Several people were trapped in the wreckage and had to be extricated using the jaws of life. One of the injured later died in hospital.
And earlier this morning, an incident involving two vehicles and a pedestrian on the N2 near Boboyi left the pedestrian injured and hospitalised.
Motorists are urged to obey the road rules to try to minimise the risk of a traffic accident. It is a well known fact that many accidents are preceded by a transgression of the law.
