Staff Reporter.
A man and woman were killed, while five others were injured, after two cars were involved in a head-on collision on the R501 outside Carletonville west of Johannesburg.
ER24 said it found the wrecks of both cars on the side of the road just before 1am on Monday morning.
“A man was found lying motionless in one vehicle while a woman was seen lying near the second vehicle. Five other adults, a woman and four men, were walking around the scene,”said ER24 in a statement.
The man in the one vehicle and the woman lying outside the second car showed no signs of life by the time the medics attended to them.
“Unfortunately nothing could be done for them and they were declared dead by the provincial emergency medical services,”ER24 added.
Five other patients were found with moderate injuries. They were treated at the accident scene and taken to Carletonville Provincial Hospital for further care.
Local authorities were on the scene for further investigations.
ER24 also attended a scene on Saturday morning when a man lost control of his car and crashed into a tree on the Two-Shaft Road in Orkney, North West.
Other motorists had stopped and managed to pull the 40-year-old man from the car.
“Medics assessed the man and found that he had sustained several injuries, leaving him in a critical condition,” said ER24.
In a separate accident,five people have been killed, and four others including two children, have been left injured after a collision on the N4 in Mpumalanga.
On Monday, the Mpumalanga Department of Community Safety, Security and Liaison said the incident happened on N4 toll road near Schoemanskloof when a Toyota sedan and a Volkswagen hatchback collided.
“It is believed that the crash happened when the driver of one of the vehicles lost control, veered into the oncoming traffic and crashed into the side of the vehicle that was coming from the opposite direction,” said the department.
ER24 and other emergency services arrived at the wreckage just before 14:00 on Monday.
“On closer inspection, medics found two adults lying trapped inside the one vehicle while three other adults were lying a few meters away. A boy believed to be 11-months old and a girl, believed to be three-years-old, were also found a few metres away from the car. Two adults from the second car were seen walking around the scene,” said ER24 spokesperson Russel Meiring.
Meiring said that medics assessed the five adults from the one vehicle, who were all declared dead at the scene.
“The boy was found to be in a critical condition, while the girl and two adults from the second car had sustained only minor injuries. Medics treated the patients and provided the boy with advanced life support interventions. Once treated, the patients were transported to nearby hospitals for urgent care,” he said.
Mpumalanga MEC for Community Safety, Security and Liaison, Vusi Shongwe, has warned motorists to be careful amid the wet weather in the province.