13 injured in taxi collision

Published Feb 26, 2015

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THIRTEEN people have been injured after a taxi collided with two vehicles at the Helen Suzman and Buitengracht Road intersection in Cape Town yesterday.

ER24 paramedics arrived at the scene to find a wrecked taxi in the middle of the road.

Rescue services used jaws-of-life to free a man who had been trapped in the taxi.

After a 20 minute operation, the patient was given advanced life support before being transported to Somerset Hospital.

Twelve other occupants sustained minor injuries.

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