9 killed in accidents over long weekend
AT LEAST nine people died on Western Cape roads this long weekend.
Yesterday at about 5.30am, four people were injured in a head-on collision at Old Mamre road in Atlantis.
Life Healthcare and Metro Rescue Services found three people trapped in the vehicles. The rescuers used specialised equipment to free them from the wreckage. One person was seriously injured and taken to Groote Schuur.
Early on Sunday morning, a driver lost control of his vehicle at De Rust in the Karoo. It landed on a railway line, and three people lost their lives in the crash.
At about 4.30pm on Sunday, provincial traffic chief Kenny Africa said three more people died in a collision involving a truck and a light motor vehicle: “On the road between Clanwilliam and Lamberts Bay there was a gruesome accident where a truck went over a light motor vehicle. Three people lost their lives in the light motor vehicle. All the injured people were taken to a nearby hospital,” said Africa.
On Sunday night, a pedestrian was knocked down on the N1 near Worcester. This was the second pedestrian to be killed on a national road in the province over the weekend, after an earlier death on the N2.
On Saturday night, a man died in a three-car collision outside Oudtshoorn, while two other people were injured and taken to hospital.
A 71-year-old man was critically injured following a collision between two vehicles and a truck on the N1 near Plattekloof in Cape Town’s northern suburbs. Rescue workers had to use metal cutters to extricate the man from the wreckage. – Staff Reporter