Update
GRAAFF-REINET NEWS - The Advertiser has just been notified by a family friend that the person who was seriously injured in the head-on collision on the N9 between Aberdeen and Graaff-Reinet this morning, was in actual fact a University of Stellenbosch student in his 20s, and not a 60-year-old as reported earlier today.
The Matie and his 56-year-old dad was on their way to Stellenbosch from KwaZulu-Natal in a Volkswagen Polo, when their vehicle was hit by an oncoming Suzuki Swift at 07:35, five kilometers before Aberdeen.
The student was due to start his new academic year in the “Eikestad”, but instead ended up in the Life St George’s Hospital in Port Elizabeth with a broken femur and shinbone.
He was first admitted to the Midland Hospital in Graaff-Reinet, but then transported to Port Elizabeth by a Relay EMS ambulance for surgery.
The other four people, including the student’s dad, were taken to the Midland Hospital.
The cause of the crash is under investigation.
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