{"id":918488,"date":"2022-01-22T05:49:35","date_gmt":"2022-01-22T05:49:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/news\/2022\/01\/22\/12-year-old-girl-loses-foot-in-durban-cbd-crash\/"},"modified":"2022-01-22T05:49:35","modified_gmt":"2022-01-22T05:49:35","slug":"12-year-old-girl-loses-foot-in-durban-cbd-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/22\/12-year-old-girl-loses-foot-in-durban-cbd-crash\/","title":{"rendered":"12-year-old girl loses foot in Durban CBD crash"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Durban – A 12-year-old girl’s foot was amputated in a crash in the Durban Central Business District on Friday.<\/p>\n
Emer-G-Med spokesperson, Kyle van Reenen, said they responded to the scene just before 9pm.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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“On arrival on scene on Shepstone Road, paramedics found multiple pedestrians had been struck by a light motor vehicle.<\/p>\n
An on-scene triage area was immediately established and a call was made by the Emer-G-Med Emergency Operations Centre for additional resources,” he said.<\/p>\n
Van Reenen said the 12-year-old was found in a critical condition, having suffered an amputation to her foot.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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“Advanced Life Support intervention was needed to stabilise her before she was taken by ambulance to a nearby hospital for further care,” he said. <\/p>\n
In a separate crash Kwazulu Private Ambulance Service responded to the N3 near Lynnfield for reports of a collision.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
\nKwazulu Private Ambulance Service responded to the N3 near Lynnfield for reports of a collision. Picture: KZPA<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
“When emergency services arrived they found that two trucks had been involved in a rear end collision, resulting in the front truck catching fire .<\/p>\n
Paramedics quickly assessed the scene and found one patient with serious injuries and one patient with minor injuries,” said KZPA spokesperson, Craig Botha.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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He said the patients were treated at scene before being transported to hospital for further treatment.<\/p>\n
Durban – A 12-year-old girl’s foot was amputated in a crash in the Durban Central Business District on Friday. Emer-G-Med spokesperson, Kyle van Reenen, said they responded to the scene just before 9pm. “On arrival on scene on Shepstone Road, paramedics found multiple pedestrians had been struck by a light motor vehicle. An on-scene triage […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-918488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/918488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=918488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/918488\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=918488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=918488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=918488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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