• News
  • Sport
  • TV
  • Radio
  • Education
  • TV Licences
  • Contact Us
No Result
View All Result
  • SOUTH AFRICA
  • POLITICS
  • BUSINESS
  • SPORT
  • AFRICA
  • WORLD
  • SCI-TECH
  • LIFESTYLE
  • FEATURES
  • OPINION
Home South Africa

Multiple car crash on the N3 in Pietermaritzburg leaves 16 dead, others injured

28 May 2022, 1:30 PM  |
Minoshni Pillay Minoshni Pillay |  @SABCNews
Emergency vehicle at a crash scene.

Emergency vehicle at a crash scene.

Image: Arrive Alive Facebook

Emergency vehicle at a crash scene.

At least 16 people are confirmed dead following a multiple-vehicle crash on the N3 south bound between the Peter Brown and Chatterton offramps in Pietermaritzburg in the early hours of Saturday morning.

The crash included two trucks, a bakkie, two minibus taxis and five other vehicles.

Netcare 911 spokesperson Shawn Herbst gives details on the crash:

 

Provincial Transport Department spokesperson Kwanele Ncalane says, “The accident involved 10 vehicles which were involved in a pile-up after a truck lost control and this resulted in a number of vehicles piling up. All the fatalities are believed to have been in a minibus taxi. We are currently trying to establish where the taxi was travelling from and where it was going. However the indications are that it was moving from Johannesburg to Harding,” says Ncalane.

Meanwhile, the KwaZulu-Natal Transport Department says rubbernecking is suspected to have played a role in the crash as early indications are, that initially, two trucks collided but that rubbernecking led to further collisions between eight other vehicles including a fully loaded minibus taxi.

Traffic on this stretch of the highway has come to a standstill while emergency services clear up the scene. An investigation is underway to determine the cause of the crash.

 

Share article
Tags: Pietermaritzburg
Previous Post

Masina calls on delegates to stop fighting over positions but focus on rebuilding ANC

Next Post

Disease experts call on WHO, governments for more action on monkeypox

Related Posts

Mandela who advocated for reconciliation, died on this day at his home in Johannesburg at the age of 95.

67 Blankets for Madiba campaign goes all out to celebrate 9th anniversary

27 January 2023, 9:38 PM
A gavel is shown with a book in the background.

Soweto “fridge-killer” planned murder of cousin-lover: NPA

27 January 2023, 8:49 PM
A sign against child abuse.

IPID investigates case of mother-child rape video

27 January 2023, 7:41 PM
[FILE IMAGE] Residents are seen in the background as tyres burn on the streets.

Protests shut down Komani businesses

27 January 2023, 4:42 PM
Bullet casings and broken glass

Clermont shooting claims 2 lives, 4 others injured

27 January 2023, 4:24 PM
[File Image] : A worker harvests grapes

Table grape farmers request exemption from rolling blackouts

27 January 2023, 4:00 PM
Next Post
Head of the Institute of Microbiology of the German Armed Forces Roman Woelfel works in his laboraty in Munich, May 20, 2022, after Germany has detected its first case of monkeypox.

Disease experts call on WHO, governments for more action on monkeypox

Most Viewed

  • 24hrs
  • Week
  • Month
  • Northern Cape’s Kakamas to be exempted from blackouts
  • Scorcher predicted in Northern Cape for two weeks
  • Chances of reaching Stage 8 blackouts are receding: Eskom
  • Residents shut down Komani over power woes
  • Eswatini human rights lawyer gunned down in the presence of his family
  • Parts of the Northern Cape to be exempted from rolling blackouts
  • VIDEO | St Benedict College’s Matric learner gets 11 distinctions
  • Limpopo matriculant from child-headed household attains diploma pass
  • Female circumcision practice thriving in Eastern Cape
  • Babes Wodumo breaks her silence at Mampintsha’s funeral
  • LIVE: City of Joburg Council elects new mayor
  • VIDEO | Government has no concrete plan to deal with load shedding: Malema
  • KZN farmer fined R1.5 million for unauthorised water use
  • Al Jamah’s Thapelo Amad touted to be Joburg’s new mayor
  • UPDATE: Thapelo Amad elected as new Mayor of Joburg

LATEST

ANC Secretary-General Fikile Mbalula addressing the media in Nasrec, December 2022.
  • Politics

Ramaphosa to announce an energy emergency package


More than 14 000 athletes at the start of the 2022 Comrades Marathon.
  • Sport

Registration for 2023 Comrades Marathon open


[File photo] ANC flag seen at an event.
  • Politics

Mahlengi Bhengu replaces Pule Mabe as ANC chief spokesperson


File image: EFF leader Julius Malema.
  • Politics

Malema calls on South Africans to reject Just Energy Transition


Eskom says stage 4 will be implemented in the evenings from 16:00pm until 05:00am over the weekend.
  • Business

Eskom loadshedding at stage 3


Gauteng ANC chair Panyaza Lesufi
  • Politics

Removal of Phalatse will yield similar results in other municipalities: Lesufi


Weather

  • About the SABC
  • Contact Us
  • Jobs
  • Advertise
  • Disclaimer
  • Site Map

SABC © 2022

No Result
View All Result
  • SOUTH AFRICA
  • POLITICS
  • BUSINESS
  • SPORT
  • AFRICA
  • WORLD
  • SCI-TECH
  • LIFESTYLE
  • FEATURES
  • OPINION

© 2022

Previous Masina calls on delegates to stop fighting over positions but focus on rebuilding ANC
Next Disease experts call on WHO, governments for more action on monkeypox