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Five people were trapped under a truck trailer after their bakkie collided with 8 other vehicles on the N3 in Pinetown on
Tuesday, paramedics said.
ER24 spokesman Derrick Banks said 9 other people were injured and taken to hospital when three trucks, two bakkies and a car collided on the freeway in the direction of Pietermaritzburg
It was not yet clear what caused the collision.
The freeway was closed with only one lane open for traffic.