Taxi driver seriously hurt in N3 crash
Durban emergency services were kept busy this morning, with several taxi crashes on busy routes during the morning rush.
Rescue Care's Garrith Jamieson says a taxi driver was seriously hurt after crashing into a flat-bed tow truck and an ambulance that had stopped on the N3 heading towards Pinetown in the vicinity of Brickfield Road.
The ambulance and tow-truck had responded to an earlier crash involving a taxi and two cars when the secondary prang occurred. The second taxi knocked the tow-truck into the back of the ambulance.
Jamieson says the driver of the second minibus had to be cut from the wreckage by the Durban Fire Department.
He says the the tow-truck driver was also taken to hospital with moderate injuries.
Meanwhile,11 people were hurt in another accident involving a taxi at the intersection of Dr Pixley Kaseme Street, that's the old West Street, and Brook Street in the CBD.
The ambulance and tow-truck had responded to an earlier crash involving a taxi and two cars when the secondary prang occurred. The second taxi knocked the tow-truck into the back of the ambulance.
Jamieson says the driver of the second minibus had to be cut from the wreckage by the Durban Fire Department.
He says the the tow-truck driver was also taken to hospital with moderate injuries.
Meanwhile,11 people were hurt in another accident involving a taxi at the intersection of Dr Pixley Kaseme Street, that's the old West Street, and Brook Street in the CBD.