A man was killed and a woman seriously injured when a bakkie and a car collided head-on on Umhlanga Rocks Drive near the CBD this afternoon.
The cause of the accident remains unclear and will form the subject of a South African Police Force investigation.
Paramedics arrived at the scene to find the two wrecked vehicles in the roadway. A man had been thrown on impact from his bakkie and sustained critical injuries, unfortunately succumbing to his injuries prior to the arrival of medics.
The female driver of the light motor vehicle clambered from the wreckage of her car which caught fire shortly after. She sustained serious injuries and was treated and stabilised at the scene by Netcare911 Paramedics before she was transported by ambulance to the Netcare Umhlanga Hospital for the specialist care that she required.