Breaking: One Killed, Two Seriously Injured in Cato Ridge Crash
Just before 11pm on Saturday evening ALS Paramedics responded to a serious head on collision on the N3 Pietermaritzburg bound near BP Oasis near Cato Ridge.
Paramedics arrived on the scene to find chaos and carnage as they found that a Taxi who had allegedly been driving contraflow in the fast lane on the National highway had collided head on with a bakkie. Paramedics quickly assessed the scene and found both drivers entrapped in the wreckage. Immediately the Ethekweni Fire Department was dispatched to assist.
The taxi driver a male believed to be in his thirties had sustained fatal injuries and unfortunately there was nothing Paramedics could do for him and he was declared deceased on the scene. In the bakkie the two occupants had sustained serious injuries and whilst Advanced Life Support
Paramedics worked to stabilize them they were cut free from the wreckage by the Ethekweni Fire Department. Once freed both patients were carefully extricated and loaded into awaiting ALS Paramedics Ambulances and transported to a nearby Hospital for the further care that they required.
At this stage the exact events leading up to this incident is unknown however Metro Police and SAPS were in attendance and will be investigating further.
