Woman involved in M4 Durban crash dies in hospital
Local paramedics have confirmed that a woman
who was critically injured in a car crash on the M4 near Durban North has died
in hospital.
It's understood that two vehicles collided head-on before the Broadway offramp on Tuesday evening.
"On arrival, paramedics found chaos as they found that two vehicles had collided head-on before one vehicle had overturned coming to rest on its roof,” said ALS paramedics spokesperson Garrith Jamieson.
“One driver, a female believed to be in her twenties, was found to be severely entrapped in her vehicle. Whilst the Durban Fire Department used the Jaws of Life and other hydraulic equipment to free the lady from the wreckage.
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Advanced Life Support Paramedics stabilised the critically injured lady. Once freed from the wreckage the lady was placed on a manual ventilator before being rushed to a nearby hospital.
“The second driver, a male in his twenties, had also sustained serious injuries and was stabilised on scene by Advanced Life Support Paramedics before being rushed to a nearby hospital for the care he required.”
