Thirteen people were injured among them eleven children aged between one and nine after a bakkie overturned on the N3 under the Treverton Bridge this morning at around 07h30. Reports indicate that the bakkie with fourteen people was traveling towards Johannesburg when the vehicle overturned and ejected the patients onto the roadway.
Netcare 911 paramedics arrived at the scene and found the highway obstructed with accident debris and the twisted frame of the vehicle, the patients were found at the side of the road. After medics stabilised the injured on scene they transported them to a hospital in Pietermaritzburg for the care that they required.