Durban - Six motorcycle crashes in eight hours left eight people injured, including motorists, according to a paramedic company that dealt with the incidents in Durban on Thursday.
And the string of incidents followed a crash on Wednesday that claimed the life of a rider.
Operations director at Rescue Care, Garrith Jamieson, said the high number of accidents was “very odd”. Jamieson, who has been a paramedic for 15 years, said he had not seen anything like it before. Three of the injured riders, he said, were intensive care units.
Jamieson said he could not attribute the incidents to slippery roads, because it had not been raining, nor could he say debris from an accident was to blame because the incidents were a long way from each other.
The majority appeared to be the result of negligence on the part of car drivers.
HORRIFIED
On Wednesday a motorcyclist was killed opnat the corner of Seaforth Avenue and Peter Mokaba (Ridge) Road in the Berea area.
A resident who lives near the scene said he had been horrified by what he had seen, as what appeared to be the rider’s father arrived at the scene and broke down in tears
Crying friends and family came on Thursday and left flowers.
“They were there the entire day,” he said.
It appeared the rider hit the fender of a car and fell about two metres from where his bike was.
“It didn’t look like the biker was at fault,” he said, noting that the biker had been wearing a helmet.
Jamieson said that the biker in the Wednesday incident, who was in his twenties, “had unfortunately suffered severe injuries and there was nothing paramedics could do to assist him”.
He was declared dead on the scene.
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