A man, believed to be in his 30s, was killed after the truck he was driving collided with another truck on the R59 at the Blockhouse rest stop in Henley-on-Klip on Friday afternoon.
When ER24 paramedics arrived on the scene at approximately 13H00, they found the truck driver entrapped in the front seat. The fire department had to extricate the man using the jaws of life. Unfortunately, he sustained fatal injuries and was declared dead at the scene.
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The exact details surrounding the incident were not yet known to our paramedics, but the police were on the scene for further investigations.