The victim had collapsed in a shopping centre at Merrivale after spending the night in a taxi stuck in the snow on the N3 travelling from Johannesburg towards KZN.patient was pronounced dead on arrival at the hospital having succumbed to hypothermia.
Meanwhile, the National Department of Transport says efforts are being made to deploy the South African National Defence Force to rescue commuters trapped in their vehicles along the N3.the South African Weather Service has issued a level eight weather warning for the south-western areas of KZN from about Ladysmith to Giants Castle in the Midlands.“Yesterday we were travelling down to Margate and then we got stuck on the N3, so we have been travelling for 26 hours now.
“I think that is a better situation to let the government send the police to stick around to move around with a police van because you will never know the criminals are also looking to the situation. They planand do bad things. It will be better for the government wherever the trucks are stopping like this to send the police to move around,” one of the drivers says.
Founder Dr Imtiaz Sooliman says his teams are also working with the N3 Toll Concession and Emergency Services and driving behind the graders removing snow from the roads to reach those motorists who are trapped. Any cookies that may not be particularly necessary for the website to function and is used specifically to collect user personal data via analytics, ads, other embedded contents are termed as non-necessary cookies.
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