Cyclist Critical After Being Knocked Down

A cyclist in his late thirties has been left with critical injuries after he was riding his bicycle on Barrage Road near Vanderbijlpark this morning. A bakkie then collided with the man, throwing him a few meters from his bicycle.

The bakkie did not seem badly damaged, but as ER24 paramedics arrived on the scene, they noticed that the man who was lying in the road was critically injured. He had sustained what seemed to be a severe head injury and he was not breathing but had a pulse. Paramedics took over his breathing manually and stabilised his condition before loading him into the ambulance to transport to hospital.

The driver of the bakkie was left physically uninjured in the accident, and the police will be investigating the cause.