One Killed, Twelve injured in Camperdown Crash

Just after 1:30 pm on Sunday afternoon, ALS Paramedics responded to a serious crash involving two vehicles on the N3 Durban-bound near Camperdown offramp just outside of Pietermaritzburg. 

ALS Paramedics arrived on the scene to find chaos and carnage as they found that a bakkie with passengers and a vehicle had collided before the bakkie lost control and rolled, ejecting the passengers onto the national highway. Immediately, more Ambulances were requested due to the multiple casualty scene. 

The driver of the bakkie a male in his forties, had sustained major injuries and whilst  Advanced Life Support Paramedics worked to stabilise him on the scene, he went into Cardiac Arrest, and despite full resuscitation effort,s he passed away on the scene. A further twelve occupants were transported by ALS Paramedics (as no other ambulances arrived to assist) to various government Hospitals for the further care that they required. ALS Paramedics had to send Ambulances from as far as Durban Central to assist at the scene.

At this stage the events leading up to the crash is unknown however SAPS and RTI were in attendance and will be investigating further.