A collision involving two light motor vehicles on the M7 yesterday afternoon left one person dead and another in a critical condition.
Two others were also seriously injured in the accident, which occurred on the Durban-bound near the Winston Churchill off-ramp yesterday afternoon.
When ER24 and the provincial ambulance service arrived on the scene at around 3pm, they found one car on its roof in the right hand lane and the second car in the centre medium and partially in the right lane.
One of the three occupants of the car that was on its roof was still inside the vehicle, having suffered fatal injuries, and was declared dead on the scene.
Advanced Life Support intervention had to be performed on a young pregnant woman who had sustained a broken arm and a head injury.
The other two occupants of that vehicle were treated for possible neck and back injuries, and all three were taken to hospital.
The driver and passenger of the other vehicle escaped uninjured in the accident.
It is believed that the vehicle that landed on its roof was travelling on the M7 Pinetown-bound when the driver lost control in the wet weather and went through the centre medium and hit the other vehicle head-on, causing the car to overturn.
Metro police and the SAPS are investigating the accident further.
This section of the M7 is notorious for accidents, despite the fact that it isn’t really a bad road.
On Saturday afternoon, a taxi overturned just past the Hans Dettman off-ramp heading towards Pinetown, and ended up in the centre island.
Nobody was injured in the accident.