Meyerton, GP 18 September 2012 12:00]
A 41 year old man has been badly injured after being knocked down by a minivan on the Drumblade road in Meyerton. The man had allegedly disembarked from his vehicle for some reason after pulling off onto Drumblade road from the R59, and when he was returning to his car he was knocked down by a minivan as he was crossing on the bridge near the M61.
ER24 paramedics from the Vaal, and the Meyerton Fire Department team arrived on scene to find the man had suffered a critical head injury, and they were worried about a severe spinal injury too.
As they were stabilising the man, treating his for his injuries and placing him onto a ventilator, AER24 was called in to the scene. The road was secured for the landing of the medicopter, and once they had landed on scene, the patient was loaded for take off to a hospital in Johannesburg.
The occupants of the minivan were not injured in the collision.
This is the second flight done by AER24 to the Vaal area to collect a critically injured patient today.
Vanessa Jackson, ER24
084 222 1078