Two people have been killed and twenty others injured in a Bus Crash on Umbilo Road and Hillier Road in Umbilo around 6am this morning.
Rescue Care Paramedics arrived on the scene to find total chaos. A Bus and a vehicle had collided before the vehicles left the roadway coming to rest on the pavement. Immediately more ambulances and Advanced Life Support units were dispatched to assist. Both occupants in the light motor vehicle were severely entrapped in the wreckage and there was nothing more paramedics could do for them and they were declared deceased on the scene. Twenty occupants from the bus had sustained various injuries and were stabilised on the scene by Rescue Care Paramedics before being transported to various Durban Hospitals for the further care that they required.
At this stage the cause of the collision is unknown however SAPS will be investigating further.
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