“The toddler was sitting on his mom’s lap in the back seat of the car. No seat belt was used,” said IPSS Medical Rescue‘s Paul Herbst.
“The family were travelling on the N2 off-ramp, up Umdloti Road towards Waterloo when their car was T-boned by a bakkie travelling on the farm road that crosses the M27.
“On impact, the mother broke the front seat of the car and the little boy flew through a shatter-proof windscreen and landed 10 to 15 metres away.
“The boy suffered major facial and head trauma and advanced life support paramedics intubated him and put him on a ventilator.
“Air mercy service was called to airlift the child to hospital.”
The mom suffered facial injuries and both she and the dad had moderate to serious injuries and were taken to hospital by ambulance.
The driver of the bakkie suffered minor injuries.
