{"id":222121,"date":"2026-01-28T11:54:28","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T09:54:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-four-killed-dozens-hurt-in-head-on-crash-on-harare-mukumbura-road\/"},"modified":"2026-01-28T11:54:28","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T09:54:28","slug":"zimbabwe-four-killed-dozens-hurt-in-head-on-crash-on-harare-mukumbura-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-four-killed-dozens-hurt-in-head-on-crash-on-harare-mukumbura-road\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Four Killed, Dozens Hurt in Head-On Crash On Harare-Mukumbura Road"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">A fatal road traffic accident has left four people dead and at least 20 others injured after a head-on collision on the Harare-Mukumbura Road, police have confirmed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\">The crash occurred on Monday at the 86-kilometre peg when a Nissan Latio carrying two passengers reportedly lost control, swerved into the oncoming lane and collided with a Mercedes-Benz Sprinter minibus transporting 21 passengers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">&#8220;All three occupants of the Nissan Latio and one passenger from the Mercedes-Benz Sprinter died on the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202601280119.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Zimbabwe\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/\">Zimbabwe<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A fatal road traffic accident has left four people dead and at least 20 others injured after a head-on collision on the Harare-Mukumbura Road, police have confirmed. The crash occurred on Monday at the 86-kilometre peg when a Nissan Latio carrying two passengers reportedly lost control, swerved into the oncoming lane and collided with a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[248],"tags":[258,256,7750,6709,53511,23964,6970,4327,257,7414,254,4686,421],"class_list":["post-222121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-crash","tag-dozens","tag-hararemukumbura","tag-headon","tag-hurt","tag-killed","tag-news","tag-road","tag-south-africa-today","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222121\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}