Injured passengers screamed after bus roof ‘peeled off’ in crash

25 July 2016 - 16:18 By Nivashni Nair

People were screaming and the road strewn with broken glass when emergency services arrived at the scene of a collision between two buses in Durban. The buses‚ ferrying commuters to work‚ crashed in North Coast Road during heavy rain on Monday – leaving 20 to 30 passengers with injuries."Patients were screaming. It was a complete chaotic situation. Obviously it wasn’t made any better by the heavy rain. The early morning traffic on that road is usually crazy so one can just imagine with the rain‚ it was tenfold‚" said Marshall Security spokesman Kyle van Reenen.He said the force of the impact completely destroyed the roof of one of the buses. "It peeled off‚" he said.Arrive Alive published photographs of the collision‚ one them showing the roof of a Mercedes Benz ripped off and its windows smashed.More than 20 injured following a collision involving two busses https://t.co/VLVSXnIh0T#ArriveAlive@marshall_secpic.twitter.com/2jGSRMhl4d— Arrive Alive (@_ArriveAlive) 25 July 2016asyncDespite the chaos‚ it took paramedics about 30 minutes to attend to as many as 30 passengers with injuries ranging from minor to serious‚ before transporting them to various hospitals.Bianca Morison from Crisis Medical said the scene "wasn’t the calmest"."But medics managed to calm the injured and quickly took control of the scene."Thankfully among those injured‚ none were fatal. At this point is is unclear as to what caused the collision but all the necessary authorities were in attendance and will be investigating the incident further‚" she said. -TMG Digital/Durban Newsroom..

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