Paramedics from the Department of Health’s Emergency Medical Services have responded to several serious crashes on the KZN South Coast.
Just after midnight, on the N2 at Parkrynie, there was a crash where a car, overturned several times, before coming to a rest on the centre island of the highway. Sadly two people have sadly passed away in this crash. The fatality injured victims were a man and woman, both aged about 40years old. Paramedics treated one patient, a man, aged about 40 years, at the scene before transporting him to hospital for continued medical care.
In the second crash, which occurred at around 07h30 this morning, a bakkie, transporting school children overturned in the Mtwhalume area, about 20km, north of Port Shepstone.
A total of 20 people were injured in the crash, 19 of the patients, were school children, aged between 6 and 17 years old. Paramedics treated patients at the scene of the crash and at a local Community Health Centre, where several patients had been transported privately. The driver of the vehicle was entrapped in the bakkie and the Jaws of Life had to be used to extricate the man, from the wreckage.
The injured patients were transported to local health institutions for continued medical care.
The exact cause of these crashes is not known at this stage and is being investigated by the police.