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Bus operator suspended after crash with school bus

August 6, 2013 • Accidents, Bus, Road • Jonckie • Comments Off on Bus operator suspended after crash with school bus

Following a bus accident on Monday morning, the Gauteng education department has suspended the usage of the operator’s buses. “The department has suspended all buses belonging to the bus company whose bus was involved in the accident pending a full investigation,” said spokesperson, Gershwin Chuenyane. The investigation would include a...

Fatal accident N1 Sable road in Cape Town

August 5, 2013 • Accidents, Car • Jonckie • Comments Off on Fatal accident N1 Sable road in Cape Town

At around 9 am on Sunday morning, paramedics from Cape Town responded to the scene of a serious accident that had taken place on the N1 at Sable road. According to scene reports, a man had parked his vehicle at the side of the highway when he then got out and...

North Durban Accidents Leave 6 People Injured On Saturday Night

August 5, 2013 • Accidents, Car • Jonckie • Comments Off on North Durban Accidents Leave 6 People Injured On Saturday Night

Crisis Medical Paramedics responded to a collision on the N2 North before the M41 at around 21:30 on Saturday evening. First on arrival, paramedics found two vehicles that had collided with each other in a rear end manner. Four people from both vehicles...

Queen Nandi accident leaves 15 injured

August 1, 2013 • Accidents, Car • Jonckie • Comments Off on Queen Nandi accident leaves 15 injured

Fifteen people were injured, four critically so, after a bakkie and a taxi collided on the Queen Nandi Drive Bridge this morning at around 07h30. Exact detail to the cause of the accident and preceding events will remain a subject for police investigation and...

Spain crash: Driver on phone

July 31, 2013 • Accidents, Train • Jonckie • Comments Off on Spain crash: Driver on phone

Madrid – A Spanish court says “black box” data recorders show that a train driver was on the phone and travelling at 153km/h, almost twice the speed limit, when the train derailed, killing 79 people. Investigators say the train had been...

Bafana Bafana and Mamelodi Sundowns striker, Katlego Mphela in Tuesday car crash

July 31, 2013 • Accidents, Car • Jonckie • Comments Off on Bafana Bafana and Mamelodi Sundowns striker, Katlego Mphela in Tuesday car crash

Pretoria – Bafana Bafana and Mamelodi Sundowns striker, Katlego Mphela has been involved in a car accident Tuesday afternoon, escaping with minor injuries. Soccer Laduma’s website reports that the accident took place outside Marabastad. Exact...

Two pedestrians knocked down on Dinkleman road

July 30, 2013 • Accidents, Pedestrain • Jonckie • Comments Off on Two pedestrians knocked down on Dinkleman road

Dinkleman road, New Germany, KZN Two young men between the ages of 25 and 35 have sustained sever injuries after they were knocked down by a light motor vehicle on Dinkleman road in New Germany last night. The two men were believed to have been possibly...

Truck and bus collide on Chamberlin road

July 30, 2013 • Accidents, Car, Truck • Jonckie • Comments Off on Truck and bus collide on Chamberlin road

Just before 4pm today Rescue Care paramedics were called to Chamberlin Road just after Quality Street for a collision between a bus and a truck. On arrival paramedics found that a bus had rear ended a truck pushing the truck onto the side walk. A quick...

Investigators probe Spain train crash

July 25, 2013 • Accidents, Rail, Train, Transport • Jonckie • Comments Off on Investigators probe Spain train crash

Santiago de Compostela – Spanish investigators were trying to determine on Thursday why a passenger train jumped the tracks and sent eight cars crashing into each other just before arriving in this northwestern shrine city on the eve of a major...

Taxi and bakkie collide in Pinetown

July 25, 2013 • Accidents, Car • Jonckie • Comments Off on Taxi and bakkie collide in Pinetown

06:30 Richmond road, Pinetown A fully laden taxi and bakkie collided into one another on Richmond road in Pinetown this morning, leaving multiple patients with critical and serious injuries. Paramedics arrived on the scene on Richmond road outside the truck...