A truck driver and his two work colleges have sustained serious injuries after a head on collision between two trucks on Shorts Retreat Road in Mkondeni just outside Pietermaritzburg this morning.
ER24 and the local Fire Department arrived on the scene and found that two trucks in the road with massive front damage to both. The driver and passenger of the one vehicle were found outside the vehicle but both patients had sustained serious injuries. The third passenger was still entrapped and had suffered serious injuries.
The Jaws of Life and other hydraulic equipment was used to help extricate the patient from the vehicle. While he was been extricated advanced life support intervention was being performed on the patient. Once out of the truck the patient was stabilised further. All three patients were transported to Pietermaritzburg Medi-Clinic in a serious but stable condition for further medical care.
The driver and passenger of the other truck were unharmed in the accident.
The road had to be closed while emergency personnel were busy on the scene. The local authorities from Pietermaritzburg were on the scene and would investigate the accident further.
Derrick Banks, ER24