At least 11 people died and 103 were injured in accidents on South Africa’s roads this weekend. The province with the highest death toll was Gauteng, where six died and 16 were admitted to hospital in critical condition, followed by KwaZulu-Natal. where four were killed and 69 injured.
In the Cape Town suburb of Kraaifontein, a motorcyclist was killed after he drove into the back of a car on Saturday.
In the Free State, 15 people were injured while on their way to Lesotho on Saturday.
The weekend accident toll saw emergency workers rushing to 24 different accident scenes in the two provinces.
In the Durban suburb of Malvern, a woman was killed when she ploughed her car into an oncoming vehicle. Hours earlier, paramedics declared one man dead on the city’s Merrivale Main Road after his car hit an oncoming vehicle.
A Durban pizza delivery man was killed when a car hit his motorbike in Musgrave. Another man died after he was knocked down on the N3.
Netcare 911’s Jeff Wicks said the flurry of accidents, including a taxi crash in KwaZulu-Natal where 19 people were injured, had paramedics working throughout the weekend.
In Johannesburg a taxi driver slammed his loaded vehicle into the wall of an old-age home in Linden. The driver and the passenger in the front seat died instantly.
[Story by Harriet McLea and Nivashni Nair appeared on Times Live]