10 killed, including 3 children, in Eldorado Park double-vehicle crash
Updated | By Andrew Robertson
Ten people have been killed in a double-vehicle crash on Gauteng's Golden Highway this morning.
A minibus taxi and car collided on the R553 in Eldorado Park.
ER 24 spokesperson, Russel Meiring says several people had been ejected from the vehicles.
"Medics assessed the patients and found that ten people, including three children under ten, had sustained numerous, fatal injuries. Nothing could be done for them and they were declared dead.
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"Several other patients were found with injuries ranging from minor to critical. The patients were treated and thereafter transported to nearby hospitals for urgent care," he says.
Meiring says the cause of the crash is not yet known.
Authorities are on the scene.
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