National long weekend collision stats + fatal Pta bus smash

At approximately 08h14 this morning, Sunday 04 May 2008, Netcare 911 responded to reports of a serious collision on the Moloto road about ten kilometers outside of Pretoria.

Paramedics found that a bus and a car were involved in a fatal collision. Two occupants of the car were killed in the incident and fire fighters had to use the “jaws of life” to free their bodies from the wreckage. Rescue personnel attended to a total of 32 patients at the scene, the majority of these were lucky to escape with relatively minor injuries. The injured were transported by ambulances from various services to the Pretoria Academic and Mamelodi hospitals.

This incident was attended to by paramedics from the private and provincial ambulances services, fire department and the traffic police.

Long weekend collision stats:

Since midnight on Thursday 01 May until 23h59 on Saturday 03 May 2008, in a time period of 72 hours, the Netcare 911 call centre has dispatched emergency vehicles to 305 motor vehicle and 45 pedestrian collisions, totalling 350 collisions throughout South Africa.

During a 96 hour time period last weekend, the Netcare 911 call centre dispatched emergency vehicles to 516 motor vehicle and 74 pedestrian collision totalling 590 incidents throughout South Africa. We are hoping that this long weekends totals will be less that the high number from last weekend.

The Netcare 911 long weekend stats for regional and national collisions will be updated on Monday 05 May 2008.

[ Information provided by Netcare 911 to the Road Safety & Arrive Alive Blog]

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