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ALIVE: Clinton Naidoo was hit in the face by a piece of steel that burst through his car window while he was driving on the N2 South near Chesterville on Wednesday. He does not know where the object came from. Pictures: Siyanda Mayeza and Rescue Care.<\/p>\n
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A Durban motorist was hit in the face by a steel object that smashed his windscreen when he was driving on the N2 South near Chesterville on Wednesday. <\/p>\n
A colleague, who was in the car with him, was able to control the car by grabbing the steering wheel as Clinton Naidoo sat stunned and bleeding. <\/p>\n
Paramedics who arrived on the scene stopped the bleeding and took him to hospital. <\/p>\n
Naidoo had a deep cut, a cracked jaw and a broken nose. Doctors said his sunglasses saved his eye. <\/p>\n
In an interview with The Star\u2019s sister paper, The Mercury, from his home in Phoenix yesterday, <\/p>\n
Naidoo said he was about to take the Queensburgh off-ramp when something struck him on the left side of his face. <\/p>\n
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<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0 <\/p>\n \u201cMy new colleague (known only as Jonathan) was on his first day at work and I was showing him around,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n DAZED<\/strong> <\/p>\n \u00a0 <\/p>\n Naidoo said he was dazed and couldn\u2019t see the road, but Jonathan grabbed the wheel and safely pulled the car into the emergency lane. <\/p>\n When they stopped, he said, Jonathan flagged down a tow truck, which directed traffic and phoned the paramedics. <\/p>\n Rescue Care\u2019s Garrith Jamieson said: <\/p>\n \u201cHe had sustained serious facial injuries.\u201d <\/p>\n Naidoo said paramedics gave him morphine for the pain. <\/p>\n He was taken to eThekwini Heart Hospital, where he was placed on a drip and his face was stitched. He was discharged later that night. <\/p>\n \u201cThe whole thing happened so quickly. I didn\u2019t even bother to look if someone had thrown the object,\u201d Naidoo said, clutching his wife Janelle for support. <\/p>\n Naidoo said his colleague saved his life because he would have crashed had he been alone. <\/p>\n \u00a0 <\/p>\n Janelle, who rushed to the hospital, said she was thankful her husband was alive. <\/p>\n Last year, the eThekwini Municipality said cameras would be installed on bridges to catch those throwing objects at motorists. -The Mercury <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Independent Newspapers ALIVE: Clinton Naidoo was hit in the face by a piece of steel that burst through his car window while he was driving on the N2 South near Chesterville on Wednesday. He does not know where the object came from. Pictures: Siyanda Mayeza and Rescue Care. Related Stories Driver survives six-storey plunge Check […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[8275,953,2143],"class_list":{"0":"post-21247","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-durban","8":"tag-newspaper","9":"tag-the-mercury","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21247\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}