One dead, 27 hurt in weekend road carnage

On Saturday, 2 April a man died on the N2 Higginson Highway near Woodlands after suffering cardiac arrest following an accident involving a bakkie. When the Netcare 911 paramedics arrived, they found the patient lying on the road in critical condition. He went into cardiac arrest and paramedics initiated CPR for 25 minutes. Nothing more could be done for the man and he was declared dead.Later on that day another accident occurred on the M4 northbound near Edwin Swales where six people including a baby was injured in a three car pile-up. Paramedics found three vehicles collided before one with a family of three overturned. Two people were entrapped in the wreckage and were freed by hydraulic equipment. The freeway was closed while emergency personnel cleared the scene.

A gloomy Sunday night brought more carnage on the road. Six people were injured after two vehicles collided on Higginson Highway. Four more were injured, including three children, in Clairwood just after 7pm in  a head-on collision.

Eleven others including seven children were injured after the vehicle they were travelling in overturned on the M4 south at the Duranta Road turnoff in Merebank Durban at about 6pm.

Rescue Care paramedics arrived on the scene tofind single vehicle had collided with a tyre in the roadway before losing control and rolling several times ejecting some of the young children.

Two adults were entrapped in the vehicle which was on its side and  Durban Fire Department officials extricated the injured. More ambulances were called to assist with the multiple casualties and once they had all been stabilised, they were transported to various Durban Hospitals.

SAPS were on the scene and will  investigate further.