Two people have died, and ten others have been injured in a crash involving a taxi and a truck on the N12 westbound, just before the Gillooly’s Interchange in Bedfordview on Gauteng’s East Rand.
EMS spokesperson in Ekurhuleni William Ntladi says the taxi was carrying 12 people, including the driver.
The two deceased, a man and a woman, were trapped inside the taxi and were declared dead at the scene.
Ntladi says the taxi driver was among the injured, who were treated at the scene before being taken to various medical facilities.
“The taxi driver escaped with moderate injuries while the truck driver was unharmed. Rescue team applied specialised hydraulic rescue equipment (jaws-of-life) to recover the entrapped patients from the wreckage. Three lanes of the freeway had to be temporarily closed to traffic during the operation.”