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Ventersburg N1 crash leaves two dead, one injured

───   16:08 Wed, 28 Sep 2016

Ventersburg N1 crash leaves two dead, one injured | News Article
Supplied by Netcare911

Ventersburg - On Wednesday afternoon, Netcare 911 and the provincial services responded to a collision on the N1 near Ventersburg.


Exact detail to the cause of the crash is still speculative however, two trucks appear to have collided head-on.
 
Paramedics arrived at the scene and found that both vehicles had burst into flames on impact.  

A man was ejected from the one vehicle while a woman was trapped in the twisted frame of the truck, both tragically died at the scene.
 
A man from one of the trucks was in a critical condition, medics from the provincial services transported him to a hospital in Welkom for the care that he required.

Statement supplied by Netcare 911

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