A Durban police officer attending to an accident scene was critically injured when the driver of another car lost control of the vehicle and crashed into a police vehicle on Wednesday morning.
According to KwaZulu-Natal emergency services spokesperson Robert McKenzie, paramedics were attending to the officer.
At around 06:00, paramedics and police officers attended to an accident scene on the M19 toward Pinetown after a driver lost control of a car.
The vehicle left the road, rolled down an embankment and came to a standstill in a fast-flowing river.
"In a video circulating on social media, the driver's legs can be seen protruding from the back [of the car].
"Rescuers made their way down to the vehicle and found that a [man] believed to be in his 30s had sustained moderate injuries. He was stabilised on the scene and transported to a nearby hospital."
McKenzie said the cause of the initial accident was not known.
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