A woman and her five-month-old baby were killed and a man was seriously injured in a car collision in Merebank, Durban.
|||Durban - A woman and her five-month-old baby were killed and a man was seriously injured in a car collision in Merebank, Durban, paramedics said on Sunday.
“A mother and her five month-old baby tragically died while a man sustained serious injuries in a side-impact accident along Travancore Road Merebank late last night” said Netcare 911
spokesman Chris Botha.
Details of the accident were still unclear, but paramedics found a VW Golf that had landed 100 metres away from the point of impact.
Botha says the Golf had hit the car on the side.
When paramedics arrived, the driver of the Golf was not there.
“The car was there but (the driver) left the scene.”
Botha said paramedics arrived to find the woman and child had been ejected from the car on impact and died on the scene. The man was still trapped inside.
He was taken to a nearby hospital. - Sapa