Twenty-four people have been injured this morning (7 February), including twenty-two children, when a taxi and light motor vehicle collided on Maraisburg Road in Newclare.
ER24 paramedics, along with other services, found a taxi in the middle of the road while a light motor vehicle was on the pavement between two trees.
Community and CPF members were already extricating the children from the taxi.
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Paramedics assessed the victims and found that two adults from the light motor vehicle and one child from the taxi had sustained serious injuries. Twenty-one other children from the taxi sustained minor to moderate injuries.
Paramedics treated the patients and provided pain-relief medication to the seriously injured, before they were transported to various private and provincial hospitals for further care.
Local authorities were on the scene for further investigations.
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