Twenty-six people, including an 11-year-old boy, were injured in accidents in KwaZulu-Natal over the weekend.
Four women sustained possible head and spinal injuries when their car veered off the road and overturned in Verulam on Sunday morning, said Netcare911 spokesman Jeff Wicks.
This, after the driver ignored a police order to stop. He was later arrested.
Wicks said paramedics stabilised the injured at the scene and they were then taken to hospital.
In the Midlands on Sunday, a father and his daughter were injured when their motorcycles collided and they fell on a bend in the R617 near Bulwer during a breakfast run.
The man had seizures after sustaining serious head injuries and was airlifted to St Anne's hospital. His daughter sustained possible head, spinal injuries and fractures to her left arm and hand.
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Another 16 people were injured when their bakkie overturned several times on the N2 near Umkomaas, south of Durban, on Saturday afternoon.
Wicks said one person was critically injured and the others sustained moderate to minor injuries.
In another incident, two people were critically injured when their car veered out of control on the N2 south near Tinley Manor on Saturday.
"Paramedics found the crushed remains of a VW Citi Golf lying in the grassed centre median, the driver and passenger still trapped inside the twisted metal," said Wicks.
He said hydraulic rescue equipment was used to extricate them.
The river was placed on a ventilator before he was airlifted to the Inkosi Albert Luthuli Central Hospital.
The hospital also admitted an 11-year-old boy who was struck by a car in Stanmore Drive, Phoenix, on Saturday.
The boy ran across the road in front of oncoming traffic. He sustained severe head trauma and multiple fractures, said Wicks.
Also on Saturday night, a petrol attendant was seriously injured when he was hit by a car at Lagoon Station, in Northway, Durban.
"Eyewitness said the driver appeared to have lost control of the car. He then fled the scene and is being sought by police," said Wicks. - Sapa
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