ALS Paramedics have been kept extremely busy this Sunday morning with multiple collisions in and around the Durban area and treating multiple people for various injuries.
Some of the crashes attended too include Umgeni Road near home affairs in the Durban CBD where a taxi and a vehicle collided leaving eight people with various injuries.
At the same time two vehicles collided on the N3 Pinetown bound near Brickfield offramp where two vehicles collided before one vehicle burst into flames. Two people were treated on scene by ALS and before being transported to a nearby Hospital.
On the N3 near the Marianhill Tollplaze and Keyridge ALS Paramedics attended to two seperate truck accidents where two people were stabilized on the scene before being transported to Hospital.
Around 10am ALS Paramedics responded to the N2 South before Nandi Drive for a single vehicle that had somehow lost control and overturned down the embankment. Paramedics found that there were five occupants in the vehicle.
Paramedics found four occupants had sustained various injuries however one Person a female believed to be in her twenties had sustained major injuries and there was nothing
Paramedics could do for her and she was declared deceased on the scene. The remaining four occupants were stabilized by Advanced Life Support Paramedics before being transported to various Durban Hospitals for the further care that they required.
ALS Paramedics would like to urge all motorists to please slow down and exercise caution and reach their destination safely.
At all the above scenes SAPS were in attendance and will be investigating further.