Seven dead in KZN accident
At least seven people have been killed in a collision between a car and a bakkie on the road between St Faiths and Highflats.
|||Durban – At least seven people have been killed in a collision between a car and a bakkie on the road between St Faiths and Highflats in southern KwaZulu-Natal on Friday, emergency services said.
Details on the accident were not immediately available, but Robert McKenzie, spokesman for the provincial Emergency Medical Service said that the accident happened at around 6pm.
Four people were critically injured in the crash and taken to nearby hospitals. Four women and three men were declared dead at the accident scene.
Highflats is about 25 kilometres from the town of Ixopo while St Faiths is about 39 kilometres from Highflats. The area is very hilly, rural and remote.
McKenzie said paramedics used the jaws of life to extricate one of the injured.
Comment could not immediately be obtained from the KwaZulu-Natal Department of Transport.
African News Agency