Oscar Thomas
30 December 2014
A man in his thirties
tragically died while two others escaped with minor injuries after an eight ton
truck overturned along the R102 between the Ottawa and Verulam traffic lights
this morning just after 04h00.
Reports from the scene
indicates that the truck was traveling towards Verulam when the vehicles veered
across the roadway went through the barriers and overturned, its crumpled
remains coming to rest on its side.
Netcare 911 Spokesperson Chris
Botha said advanced life support paramedics and the ambulance crew arrived at
the scene and found that a man had been ejected from the vehicle and was
trapped under the wreckage with life threatening injuries, the two other
passengers from the truck was found at the side of the roadway with minor
injuries.
“Paramedics and the fire
department worked fervently to extricate and stabilise the injured man from
beneath the vehicle, tragically though he died on scene due to the extensive
injuries that he sustained, the other patients were transported to a nearby
hospital for the care that they required Botha added.
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