A number of serious motor vehicle collisions had ER24 paramedics and local traffic officials busy today. Accidents were located all around the peninsula ranging as far as Klein Brak in the Mosselbay area.
The day’s carnage started early this morning when a bakkie collided with a small passenger vehicle on the N7 direction Malmesbury at 06:30. The passenger vehicle had then got stuck under a truck it had collided with in front of it. Fire and rescue personnel had to use specialized equipment to extricate the driver from the vehicle. The bakkie had overturned ejecting its passenger from the load bed. A total of four patients were taken to hospital per ambulance with minor injuries.
A mere three hours later a second accident had occurred on the infamous “aartappel draai” on Tienie meyer ave. Its unknown as to how, but a medium sized truck had overturned in the bend. When paramedics arrived on scene the three male occupants of the truck were sitting on the side of the road. ER24 then transported the three patients to hospital all with minor injuries.
At the same time an accident occurred in Durbanville where a passenger vehicle collided with a milk delivery bakkie in Durban rd. According to paramedics on scene the passenger vehicle had collided with the bakkie causing it to overturn.
Fortunately for all the people involved in the accidents all of them were able to walk away from the accident with minor injuries however, ER24 advice all road users in Cape Town to adhere to the rules of the road, utilize their headlights and to keep their following distance.
Andre Visser
ER24
