Accident in Athlone injures children

By Henry Booysen

30 September 2007

An accident which occured yesterday on Grasmere Road has left a three month old baby and a eight year old child injured.

The accident happened when three cars collided into each other, each hitted each other from behind when the car travelling in front suddenly stopped.

"The baby was not strapped in and was on her mother's lap when the collision occured, the baby suffered minor cuts and bruises," says ER24 spokesperson Derrick Banks.

Both children were taken to the hospital, and Bank has said that people must realise the dangers of not strapping themselves and their children in.

Another was injured in the accident when his head had gone through the windscreen but refused to go to the hospital.