Tragic weekend: Five killed in Durban road crashes
A man was killed in a crash on Hammarsdale Main Road on Saturday.
Image: ALS Paramedics
There has been a spate of road crashes across Durban at the weekend in which five people have died.
In two separate crashes in Chatsworth on Friday, three people were killed according to ALS Paramedics.
ALS Paramedics said that in the first crash on High Terrace Road in Crossmoor, paramedics responded to the single vehicle crash just before 5pm on Saturday afternoon and found that a vehicle had left the roadway and crashed into a fence.
“Paramedics set up a triage and found that there were three occupants in the vehicle. One man 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. Two other occupants had sustained various injuries and once stabilised on the scene by paramedics they were transported to a nearby Hospital for the further care that they required.”
Two people died when a car crashed onto railway tracks in Chatsworth on Saturday night.
Image: ALS Paramedics
In a second crash on Saturday night on the M1 East Bound before Westcliff offramp, two people died in a single vehicle crash.
“Paramedics arrived on the scene to find a single vehicle had somehow lost control and rolled numerous times onto the railway lines. Unfortunately both occupants had been ejected and were found metres way from the wreckage.”
A man, believed to be in his thirties, was declared dead at the scene while the passenger, a woman in her twenties, was stabilised on scene by Advanced Life Support Paramedics.
However she succumbed to her injuries in hospital.
In another crash on Saturday, a man was killed in a single vehicle crash on Hammarsdale Main Road near the Astron Garage.
ALS Paramedics said it is believed that the driver and only occupant of the vehicle was ejected whilst the vehicle rolled numerous times.
In a crash earlier on Saturday, one person was killed and three others were injured in a crash involving two vehicles on Prince Alfred Street and Monty Naicker Road in the Durban CBD, ALS Paramedics said.
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