ER24 paramedics described the scene as somewhat chaotic, where two taxis had rammed into each other, head on, with severe force, coming to rest almost perfectly next to each other. The incident took place at around 22h00, on Landsdown road in Khayelitsha. Paramedics allegedly had a difficult time of sorting through the bystanders in order to find the patients, and again found it difficult to determine if they were really a patient involved in the accident or not.
Three patients had sustained multiple serious injuries, with two of them being in a more critical condition than the other one. The two more critical men were determined to be the drivers of the respective taxi, who were flung out of the front windscreen of their vehicles upon impact. Both had multiple broken bones and severe head injuries. The other man had sustained broken bones but was in a stable condition. He was trapped in a passenger seat of one of the taxis for approximately fourty minutes while Fire and Rescue workers used the Jaws of Life to cut away at the wrecked metal surrounding him.
Another 5 men and one women were treated on scene for minor injuries and shock, and all patients were loaded into ambulances and transported to various surrounding provincial hospitals.
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