Main Road Mayhem

Intersection of terror - Mounties Ambulance and Emergency Services’ Joseph Kruger steadies the stretcher as emergency personnel stabilise Empangeni High School science teacher, Lukusa Chimanga, after pulling him from his wrecked car following an accident at the notorious Main Road-Frank Bull intersection. Six people were injured in the incident. Twenty minutes earlier a child was injured in another accident on the same road

Seven injured at notorious intersection

Emergency services were kept busy as seven people were injured in the space of 20 minutes in two accidents in Empangeni’s Main Road on Wednesday morning. Lukusa Chimanga, a science teacher at Empangeni High, was seriously injured and had to be removed from his vehicle using the jaws of life. This after his Opel Cadet, a City Golf and a Hyundai Atos collided at the Frank Bull and Main Road traffic lights. His three children and brother-in-law, who were also in the vehicle, and the driver of the City Golf sustained serious injuries and were transported to hospital. Empangeni High’s Principal Zelma Matthee was on the scene shortly after the accident occurred and expressed her concern for the injured. ‘This is a tragic accident, and it is sad that such a terrible thing can happen as people are on their way to school. ‘We will be praying for them,’ she said. Just 20 minutes before this another accident occurred at the President Swart and Main Road traffic lights where three vehicles rear-ended. One child sustained minor injuries. Heavy rains during the night made the roads slippery, which could possibly have contributed to the accidents.