N3 accident
2 people dead after container falls on taxi on N3
Twelve other people have been injured, four of them are critical.
Emergency services say a minibus taxi and three other vehicles were involved in the fatal crash on a stretch of that highway between Villiers and the Wilge Toll Plaza on Sunday afternoon.
Details around the accident are still sketchy with officials currently on the scene.
The N3 Toll Concession together with other organisations and law enforcement officers set up a wellness station near the Mooi River Plaza earlier on Thursday.
According to the N3 Toll Concession’s Miles Le Roux, at least a hundred crashes occur per month on this busy toll route that stretches from Heidelberg to Durban.
The N3 Toll Free Concession has noted with concern the increase in the number of single vehicle crashes along the N3.
Three people including a baby have been killed and dozens more injured in two separate crashes on Van Reenen's Pass on the N3 in KwaZulu-Natal.
It’s understood that a truck, a taxi and three other cars collided on Friday morning.
Robert Banda was in his vehicle with his wife and their seven-year-old daughter when the bridge fell.
The collapsed bridge on the N3 Geldenhuys Interchange has been cleared and the route is open for traffic.
It’s understood a truck and car collided early on Tuesday morning and burst into flames.
Emergency personnel say when they arrived on the scene, they found the taxi on its side in the emergency lane.
Two vehicles collided and burst into flames blocking the flow of traffic along the route for several hours.
Traffic is heavily backed up on the highway between the R23 and the R550.
At least four people were killed when the taxi they were travelling in overturned on the highway.
A car drove through the barriers and into a river on the N3 highway near Leondale.