KZN Health MEC calls on motorists to drive with caution
KZN's Health MEC, Sibongiseni Dhlomo has added his voice to the calls for motorists to exercise caution on the province's roads.
Dhlomo has been reacting after eleven people were killed in a bakkie crash near Harding in southern KZN yesterday.
The vehicle they had been travelling in overturned on the D1049.
Seven other people were seriously hurt in the crash.
Dhlomo says officials will be following up on the condition of the injured after this morning's hospital rounds.
He says road accidents have a major impact on victims' families but can also traumatise emergency services.
"They are picking up bodies everyday and they are picking up bodies of a three-year-old or a three-month-old baby and these are traumatic scars in the minds of our staff members.
"We have to actually counsel and give them all the support because they are the first or second people after the police to arrive on the scene of accidents," he said.
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