The provincial Emergency Medical Services (EMS) spokesperson, Sipho Towa, tells OFM News that two minibus taxis collided head-on on the R703 near Verkeerdevlei, 39 kilometres south-east of Brandfort in the Masilonyane municipality. He says the deceased were all declared dead on the scene and the road is being closed to clean it up. He adds that seven people sustained moderate injuries, two were injured critically and nineteen suffered minor injuries. Towa says the patients were transferred to the Pelonomi, Busamed and Dr JS Moroka Hospitals in the province.

Meanwhile, two people lost their lives in a road carnage that involved a Provincial EMS ambulance on the R721 between Vredefort and Kroonstad on Wednesday morning 11 December while several people were injured. Towa said the provincial ambulance collided with a private car. He said the ambulance was transporting a patient from the Parys Hospital to the Boitumelo Hospital in Kroonstad. He further said two people have been critically injured and two sustained moderate injuries.

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