Traffic on the N3 freeway is heavily backed up about 30km after Wardens towards Johannesburg following a serious crash between a truck and two cars on Friday afternoon.
N3 Toll Concession confirmed in a tweet just before 14h00 that recovery was ongoing.
Details of the accident were not immediately available however truck drivers on the scene confirmed that both Durban bound and Johannesburg bound carriageways were heavily affected.
13h41 02/10 #CrashUpdate: N3-8- 37,8 S #N3DurbanBound near Warden: 2 Cars and 1 X Truck involved. Recovery still in progress. Traffic using contra flow on the N/B. Please drive safe and take care.
— N3 Toll Concession (@N3Route) October 2, 2020
Serious truck and two car crash on N3 between Wardens and Villiers pic.twitter.com/fyBiQHl8SJ
— SA Trucker (@rsa_trucker) October 2, 2020