Increase in crashes on KZN roads
Paramedics say they have seen an increase in car crashes on
the province's roads since the start of the long weekend.
On Friday, four people were killed in separate crashes.
Officials say the driver of a car was killed after the vehicle collided with a truck on the N2 near Kwadukuza.
Two children were left seriously injured.
In another accident in Westbrook, a teenager was killed in a single-vehicle accident.
Four others were left injured.
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Two people were killed in another collision on the N2 just after the Higginson Highway off-ramp.
It's understood that the car collided with a truck.
"Paramedics have attended to multiple accidents during the day and at night and have also been attending to quite a few fatal collisions that have occurred during this time," says ALS Paramedics spokesperson Garrith Jamieson.
"Paramedics would like to urge motorists to please drive carefully and expect a large amount of traffic and out-of-town visitors to our province and to be patient and cautious on the roads. Please slow down and obey the rules of the road."
