Two men seriously injured in collision
A resident tells what he think had happened at an accident scene on the morning of Tuesday 25 February.
Two young men had sustained serious injuries this morning 25 February after colliding with a tree on Du Toit Street in Horison, Roodepoort.
The accident occurred at the corner of Du Toit and Fiona Streets at around 09.35am.
An electrician who was working near the accident scene was second to arrive at the scene. He told the Record that he believed the accident occurred due to speeding.
“I had heard someone driving very fast on Fiona Street where it curves.
“I later heard brakes screeching and the eventual crash – I just knew that it must have been that speeding vehicle,” Buks Barnard, a Witpoortjie resident, explained his experience to the Record.
He believed that their speeding could have caused them to lose control of the vehicle, resulting in their hitting the pavement forcefully.
“The impact must have flung their vehicle against the tree,” he stated.
Although he reported that both ER24 and Netcare 911 emergency services were on scene as well as Help 24, Joburg EMS and the JMPD, Netcare 911 transported the patients.
“The two young males had sustained serious injuries,” Netcare 911 spokesperson Santi Steinmann told the Record.
It remains unclear to which hospital/s they were transported.
Thank you for sharing the article on the accident, I believe it is important to make people aware but I have a major concern… I am extremely concerned by the nature of the pictures you have included above, you are freely displaying the injured man’s face and I believe this is a serious breach of his right to privacy at a time when both himself and his family are highly traumatised? I would like to request that you remove these highly offensive pictures with a sense of urgency as you are promoting a culture of taking pictures of seriously injured people… Paramedics and police officers already have their hands full without having to control crowds of people who want to take a quick pic of an injured person…