A forty-year-old man was airlifted to hospital after a bakkie and truck collided on Philadelphia Road (R304), at Old Malmsbury Road, near Philadelphia.
When emergency services arrived on the scene they found the driver of the bakkie was trapped in the vehicle and had sustained multiple serious fractures. The patient was cut from the wreckage by rescue crews from the Fire Department using hydraulic rescue equipment. The man was then airlifted by the ER24-Discovery Medicopter to Milnerton Medi-Clinic in a serious but stable condition. The driver of the truck was not injured.
The intersection was closed while emergency services worked on the scene. The cause of the collision is being investigated by police.
Tristan Wadeley
ER24
