Scores injured when truck crashes into bus in South Africa

Scores injured when truck crashes into bus in South Africa

2010-10-09 02:59:55 GMT+7 (ICT)

JOHANNESBURG (BNO NEWS) -- Scores of people have been injured after a passenger bus was involved in a serious accident in South Africa on early Friday evening, emergency officials said.

The accident happened on the N3 highway on Van Reenen's pass, near Windy Corner where the Free State and KwaZulu-Natal provinces border. "Medics have arrived on scene to find that there were 56 passengers on the bus," Chris Botha, a spokesman for Netcare 911, told BNO News.

Botha said the truck was trying to make a U-turn on the N3 when a S.A. road link bus plunged into him, injuring more than 50 people. "Both drivers were still trapped in the twisted remains of their vehicles and firemen are using the jaws of life to free them from the wreckages," he said, adding that they are both in a critical condition.

Medics were continuing to work tirelessly to stabilize an unknown number of people who had been seriously wounded in the accident, before transporting them to a hospital in Ladysmith.

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