Durban - The holiday carnage continued on Monday when a motorcyclist died when a lorry drove over him and a woman died in a head-on collision.
Rescue Care Paramedics spokesman, Garrith Jamieson, said paramedics arrived on the M7 near Malvern, to find the motorcyclist critically injured.
Despite their efforts the man, believed to be in his forties, died.
Bystanders said he was struck by the trailer of a passing lorry and was thrown from his bike, landing under the wheels of the trailer.
KZN Road Traffic Inspectorate (RTI) spokeswoman, Zinhle Mngomezulu, said officers alerted their colleagues in Pinetown who managed to stop the lorry before the Mariannhill Toll Plaza on the N3.
Mngomezulu said the driver claimed he was unaware he had been involved in an accident. The lorry was taken to the RTI’s Rossburgh grounds and, Mngomezulu said, the driver was being charged with culpable homicide.
The woman in her sixties who died, suffered cardiac arrest after an accident on the M25, under the N2 Bridge on the North Coast, on Monday.
Also on Monday, the death toll from an accident in which a bakkie overturned near KwaDukuza on Monday rose to four after one of the injured died in hospital, Mngomezulu said.
The accident happened on the R102 at the southern entrance to KwaDukuza. Apart from the four people killed, A further seven sustained serious injuries while another five suffered minor injuries.
The bakkie, believed to be a single cab Toyota Hilux, had overturned.
In St Michael’s-On-Sea, on the South Coast, on Monday, a woman and child were seriously injured, with a third person suffering minor injuries, after an accident in which one of the vehicles involved reportedly fled the scene.
And in Margate, an 11-year-old was helping a 16-month-old toddler cross the road when they were struck by a vehicle.
They sustained moderate injuries.
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