KWAZULU-NATAL. – Seven people, including six passengers from a long-distance bus and a truck driver, were injured in a collision between a bus and truck on the N3 near Hidcote.
Craig Botha of KwaZulu Private Ambulance Service said the medical team was called to the accident around midnight, where they found a bus carrying 59 passengers bound for Johannesburg had collided violently with a truck. The impact forced the truck off the road, after which its cargo spilled into the oncoming traffic lanes.
The seven injured sustained injuries ranging from minor to serious. Paramedics stabilised all of them at the scene before they were transported to nearby hospitals.
No other vehicles were involved in the accident according to the ambulance service. Local authorities were at the scene to secure the area, manage traffic around the spilled cargo, and investigate the cause of the collision.
This article is an automatic English translation of a Nuusflits article originally published in Afrikaans. Read the Afrikaans original.
