Roodepoort- A thirty-three-year-old man was critically injured following a pedestrian accident on Ontdekkers Road in Horizon View, Roodepoort this morning. Exact detail surrounding the cause of the pedestrian accident and preceding events are still unclear and will remain the subject of a police investigation.

“Netcare 911 paramedics arrived at the scene and found the man lying on the roadway. Upon assessment of the injured man, paramedics found that the man had sustained critical injuries after he was knocked over by a vehicle” Netcare 911 spokesperson Santi Steinmann said.

The critically injured man was treated at the scene and rushed to hospital, under the care of an advance life support paramedic, for the urgent medical care he required.

-TDN

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