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Driver and patient injured in ambulance accident in Hospital Street
Motorists are advised to use alternative routes as Hospital Street has temporarily been closed.
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POLOKWANE – A taxi and an ambulance collided at the intersection of Market and Hospital Street, this morning.
The taxi was traveling in Market Street and the ambulance, transporting a patient who needed medical treatment, in Hospital Street when they collided.
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The accident caused the ambulance to flip on its side, leaving the patient and the driver critically injured
They were both rushed to Pietersburg Provincial Hospital.
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