Medics kept busy in wet weather conditions
Emergency services across the province have been kept busy as a result of the wet weather conditions towards the end of the week.
Durban-based medics say they were called out to multiple crashes last night, with several people requiring medical treatment.
In one accident, a truck veered off the N3 in the vicinity of the Mariannhill Toll Plaza in Pinetown.
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The heavy duty vehicle crashed down an embankment, with the injured driver needing to be cut out of the wreckage.
Rescue Care's Garrith Jamieson says the driver had to be pulled up to the roadway using a specialised rope system.
He was then loaded into an ambulance and taken to hospital.
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Meanwhile, a 43-year-old woman was hurt in a separate crash along Aluminia Alley in Richards Bay on the north coast yesterday afternoon.
The exact circumstances leading that that accident are still unknown.
This morning, around 20 people were hurt when three vehicles collided a the intersection of Umgeni Road and Sandile Thusi Road, formerly Argyle Road, in Durban.
In one accident, a truck veered off the N3 in the vicinity of the Mariannhill Toll Plaza in Pinetown.
NOW READ: KZN break from heavy downpours
The heavy duty vehicle crashed down an embankment, with the injured driver needing to be cut out of the wreckage.
Rescue Care's Garrith Jamieson says the driver had to be pulled up to the roadway using a specialised rope system.
He was then loaded into an ambulance and taken to hospital.
ALSO READ: KZN disaster teams on standby as rain persists
Meanwhile, a 43-year-old woman was hurt in a separate crash along Aluminia Alley in Richards Bay on the north coast yesterday afternoon.
The exact circumstances leading that that accident are still unknown.
This morning, around 20 people were hurt when three vehicles collided a the intersection of Umgeni Road and Sandile Thusi Road, formerly Argyle Road, in Durban.
Jamieson says the injured were stabilised on scene before being taken to hospital.
He says extra ambulances had to be dispatched to help transport the patients.