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Highway police and road workers clean up after a pile-up involving 18 cars and a truck carrying a cargo of polypropylene on the N3 Durban-bound near Hammarsdale yesterday afternoon. One person was injured in the accident.\tPICTURE: Chris Botha \/ Netcare911<\/p>\n
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Three people died and three were seriously injured in accidents on KwaZulu-Natal roads yesterday, which involved a total of 25 vehicles. <\/p>\n
Eighteen cars and a truck with a cargo of polypropylene were in a pile-up on the N3 Durban-bound near Hammarsdale yesterday afternoon. <\/p>\n
ER24 spokesman Derrick Banks said paramedics from Hillcrest and Pietermaritzburg arrived at the scene and found cars all over the road and the damaged truck a few metres away. <\/p>\n
He said paramedics went from vehicle to vehicle to look for injured people. <\/p>\n
A woman believed to be in her early forties had suspected serious neck and back injuries from the impact and was taken to hospital, Banks said. <\/p>\n
No other injuries were reported. <\/p>\n
The road was covered in the truck\u2019s white cargo. <\/p>\n
Meanwhile, a woman died and another person was seriously injured in a head-on collision in Wakesleigh Road in Bellair, Durban, at 8am yesterday. <\/p>\n
Netcare911 spokesman Chris Botha said paramedics found the crumpled remains of an Opel Corsa and an Isuzu bakkie obstructing the road with the occupants still trapped in the wreckage. <\/p>\n
The driver of the bakkie was killed on impact and the woman in the other vehicle was seriously injured. Botha said she was taken to hospital. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n
An hour earlier, a motorcyclist died when he crashed into the side of a car in Marine Drive, Shelly Beach. <\/p>\n
Botha said Netcare911 paramedics had attempted advanced life support resuscitation, but after more than an hour the man was declared dead. <\/p>\n
At 5.30am yesterday a man was killed and another was seriously injured when two trucks collided on the N3 south at Peacevale. <\/p>\n
One of the trucks, an 18-wheeler, was transporting chemicals when it hit the rear of the first truck. <\/p>\n
Botha said the driver of the rear truck died at the scene. Paramedics and the fire services found him trapped in the crumpled metal of the cab. <\/p>\n
His passenger, who was seriously injured, was on the the embankment covered in chemicals. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n
The highway was closed for several hours while the scene was cleaned up. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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