26 injured, three die in collision near Cullinan
The City of Tshwane Emergency Services Department responded to a collision between a bus and a bakkie on the M10 Road in Bynespoort near Cullinan on Thursday.
A collision between a bus and a bakkie has claimed the lives of three people, leaving 26 others with injuries ranging from minor to moderate.
Tshwane Emergency Services spokesperson, Deputy-chief Charles Mabaso, said that the accident on the M10 in Bynespoort near Cullinan happened just after 15:00 on Thursday, June 27.
“Emergency Services Department officials arrived on the scene to find a bus that had collided with a bakkie, with the bakkie lodged under the bus,” said Mabaso.
“Multiple patients from the bus received emergency medical treatment from various ambulance services that were in attendance.”
He said that firefighters immediately started with the extrication of a male patient that was trapped inside the bakkie and presumed dead.
“A heavy lifting towing truck was requested to assist with the lifting of the bus to further the extrication of the trapped victim.”
Mabaso said that once the bus was lifted, officials discovered that two boys, aged around 14, had also perished in the accident.
“The three victims, an adult male and two boys, were declared dead by paramedics on the scene,” said Mabaso.
A further 26 patients were transported to Mamelodi Hospital and Stanza Bopape Clinic with injuries ranging from minor to moderate by the Gauteng Emergency Medical Services and other ambulance services.
“The cause of the accident is under police investigation,” said Mabaso.
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