Two dead after trucks collide, burst into flames at Mtunzini toll plaza

Richards Bay – The N2 closed Saturday afternoon at the Mtunzini toll plaza near Richards Bay in KwaZulu-Natal after two people were killed when a fuel tanker truck and another truck collided and burst into flames, said paramedics.

Netcare 911 paramedics responded shortly after 1 p.m. Saturday afternoon reports of a collision on the N2 near Mtunzini Toll Plaza on the north shore of KwaZulu-Natal, Netcare 911 spokesman Shawn Herbst said in a statement.

Reports from the scene indicated that two trucks, one of them a tank truck carrying a flammable liquid, had collided. Both trucks overturned on the road, effectively blocking N2 entirely.

Both trucks subsequently caught fire and were completely destroyed. Once the fire and rescue services put out the flames, an advanced life support paramedic made an assessment and found that the truck drivers had been burned to death in the accident.