Three killed in N3 crash outside PMB
Three people have been killed in a crash involving a bus and
a car on the N3 outside Pietermaritzburg.
The vehicles collided on the northbound carriageway, that is
heading from Durban towards Pietermaritzburg, between Lynnfield and Ashburton
this evening.
Initial reports from the scene are that the bus allegedly
left the roadway and crashed into on-coming traffic, crashing head-on with the
light motor vehicle.
The bus had been transporting around 120 people at the time.
Netcare911 says three people who had been travelling in the car died at the scene.
A fourth person was critically hurt and taken to hospital under the watch of an advanced life support paramedic.
The event leading up to the crash are being investigated.