Durban – A biker and a car driver died just after midnight after a superbike rear-ended a vehicle – almost splitting it into two parts – along the M4 Southern Freeway, just out of Durban’s central business district.
ALS Paramedics said when they arrived on the scene in the early hours of Saturday, (10 August 2024), they found a superbike had collided into the rear of a vehicle in the fast lane.
“The motorcycle driver a male in his 40s, had sustained major injuries and unfortunately there was nothing Paramedics could do for him and he was declared deceased on the scene,” said Garrith Jamieson, ALS Paramedics spokesperson.
“There were two occupants in the vehicle, however, the motorcycle had almost split the vehicle in two and the driver of the vehicle a male in his 30s had also sustained major injuries, and there was nothing paramedics could do for him and he was also declared deceased on the scene.”
Jamieson said a teenage passenger in the vehicle sustained serious injuries.
The teenager was stabilised by Advanced Life Support paramedics before being transported to a nearby hospital.
SA Police Service and Metro Police officers were in attendance.
