Multiple fatalities across the city
DEMS members had a number of fatal incidents to deal with, last weekend.
Five people lost their lives in Ekurhuleni, in five separate incidents, last weekend.
In one of the incidents the body of an unknown man was discovered after a fire was extinguished by firefighters in Langaville, near Tsakane, last Saturday evening.
Three other male patients were declared dead on scene by Ekurhuleni Disaster and Emergency Management Services (DEMS) paramedics in three separate accidents, two on the N3 highway and the other on the R21 Albertina Sisulu northbound highway, opposite O R Tambo International Airport, also last Saturday evening.
The first incident occurred at about 6.20pm on the N3 highway northbound, just after the Grey Avenue off-ramp, in Dinwiddie, while the second one was recorded on the southbound carriageway, under the Leondale Road Bridge, near Spruitview, almost an hour later.
Both N3 accidents are believed to have be hit-and-run incidents, as no vehicles were found on the scenes.
The R21 accident happened on the northbound side of the highway and the vehicle involved stopped about 100m from the point of impact.
All three were pedestrian/vehicle accidents (PVAs).
The fifth patient to be declared dead was the driver of a light motor vehicle, in Dalview, Brakpan.
This was a single motor vehicle accident.
“Apparently the driver lost control of the vehicle and crashed into a stationary object.
“Hydraulic rescue tools (Jaws of Life) had to be used to remove him from the wreckage,” said William Ntladi, district manager media liaison for DEMS.
“Two other passengers from the vehicle sustained multiple trauma injuries and were admitted to the Sunshine Hospital in serious but stable conditions, for further medical treatment.”
EMPD officers are investigating all the road accidents.
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