Golf vs. Truck

Shortly before midnight, ER24 paramedics raced through to Prospecton road, south of Durban, for a report of a serious accident involving a car and a truck. When we arrived we found two indian males (20’s) trapped in a modified white VW Golf. Both men were seriously injured and the vehicle in which they were travelling was firmly embedded under a large 18 wheeler truck which was carrying cargo.

Paramedics stabilised the injured men while the Metro Fire Department used the Jaws of Life to free the men from their mangled wreck. Both men sustained suspected neck, head and back injuries, as well as broken limbs. They were also badly cut up from the impact and sustained facial trauma. Both were placed on drips at the scene by paramedics, before being taken by ambulance to Kingsway hospital, where they are in a serious but stable conditon.

Details of the accident are sketchy however, from evaluating the accident scene, it looks like the driver of the Golf did not see the truck in front of him in the dark and simply drove into it. The truck driver was not injured.
SAPS were in attendance and the case is being investigated.