Durban ( Clairewood ) M4 Southern Freeway near Jacobs Off ramp

A twenty eight year old woman is in a serious condition after been involved in a collision between a bakkie and a bus on the M4 Southern freeway late yesterday evening.

ER24 paramedics arrived on the scene to find a bakkie that had collided with a bus and had wedged its self underneath the back part of the bus. The driver was able to free himself before emergency personnel had arrived on the scene. The passenger was not so lucky at the time. The impact had caused the roof to collapse down on her, making it very difficult for emergency personnel to work.

Advanced Life Support Intervention was performed on the patient due to the traumatic injuries she had sustained, while Fire Department used the Jaws Of Life to help free the woman from the wreckage. The patient who was entrapped for more than an hour was finally freed and was extricated from the bakkie using specialised equipment. The patient was stabilised further before been transported to a nearby hospital in a serious but stable condition.

It is believed that the driver of the bakkie misjudged the bus when he came around the corner on the freeway, he tried to avoid the bus but slammed into the corner of the bus with a force. Paramedics are sure that if the passenger was not wearing her seat belt at the time, this accident could have turned out to be quite fatal.