At 08h42 on Tuesday Netcare 911 paramedics responded to a collision on the N3 in Warden. Reports from the scene indicate that a truck and a car collided head-on. Exact details to the cause of the crash and preceding events will remain a subject for police investigation.
Paramedics from Netcare 911 and the provincial services arrived at the scene and found accident debris and the crumpled remains of the vehicle obstructing the roadway. The impact was of such that the engine of the car was found some distance away from the wreckage.
After triaging the injured it was found that the driver of the vehicle tragically died on impact while his passenger was in a critical condition, the driver of the truck sustained minor injuries and was severely traumatised.
Medics treated the two patients at the scene before they transported them to a hospital in Harrismith for the care that they required.
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