Durban: A six-year-old boy was killed while on his way to school in Margate on the KZN South Coast on Friday morning.
According to Robert Mckenzie from Emergency Medical Services, they responded to reports of a crash at the intersection of Roosevelt and Piet Retief just after 7am.
He said the crash involved a minibus taxi that was transporting children to school and a light motor vehicle.
“Sadly, a six-year-old boy has sustained fatal injuries in this crash.
“Paramedics from various ambulances services treated a total of 19 people at the scene, which included several school children.”
Details leading up the crash, according to Mckenzie, was unknown.
KZN police spokesperson Lieutenant Colonel Nqobile Gwala said a case of culpable homicide is being investigated by Margate SAPS.
“A taxi with school children collided with a small vehicle. A six-year-old child that was travelling in the taxi lost his life. Both drivers sustained injuries as well as all the learners and were transported to local hospitals.
In a separate crash in Durban on Friday morning, multiple people were injured following a crash on Nicholson and Deodar Avenue Umbilo.
According to Garrith Jamieson from ALS Paramedics, two cars collided.
“One of the cars, thereafter, crashed into a boundary wall. A total of five people sustained injuries ranging from serious to minor.”
Jamieson said SAPS were on scene.
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