{"id":229653,"date":"2026-04-06T14:28:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T12:28:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-trucker-knocks-dead-seven-people-at-accident-scene\/"},"modified":"2026-04-06T14:28:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T12:28:11","slug":"zimbabwe-trucker-knocks-dead-seven-people-at-accident-scene","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-trucker-knocks-dead-seven-people-at-accident-scene\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Trucker Knocks Dead Seven People At Accident Scene"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\">SEVEN people, who had stopped to assess an accident, were knocked dead by a haulage truck that approached the crash scene at high speed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\">Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) national spokesperson, Commissioner Paul Nyathi confirmed the road traffic accident, which occurred on Easter Friday at the 57 kilometre peg along the Bulawayo-Beitbridge highway.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"39\">&#8220;The ZRP confirms a fatal road traffic accident in which seven pedestrians were killed after being hit by a by a truck on 03\/04\/26 at around 2200 hours at&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202604060095.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>SEVEN people, who had stopped to assess an accident, were knocked dead by a haulage truck that approached the crash scene at high speed. Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) national spokesperson, Commissioner Paul Nyathi confirmed the road traffic accident, which occurred on Easter Friday at the 57 kilometre peg along the Bulawayo-Beitbridge highway. &#8220;The ZRP confirms [&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":[7264,258,256,8096,14442,257,6321,13190,254,12321,4686,421],"class_list":["post-229653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-accident","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-dead","tag-knocks","tag-news","tag-people","tag-scene","tag-south-africa-today","tag-trucker","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229653","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=229653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229653\/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=229653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}