{"id":10200,"date":"2018-09-06T10:30:07","date_gmt":"2018-09-06T08:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/raf-intervenes-to-assist-families-of-melmoth-fatal-bus-crash-in-kzn\/"},"modified":"2018-09-06T10:30:08","modified_gmt":"2018-09-06T08:30:08","slug":"raf-intervenes-to-assist-families-of-melmoth-fatal-bus-crash-in-kzn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/raf-intervenes-to-assist-families-of-melmoth-fatal-bus-crash-in-kzn\/","title":{"rendered":"RAF intervenes to assist families of Melmoth fatal bus crash in KZN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p>The Road Accident Fund (RAF) has quickly stepped in to ease the pain of families and relatives of the six people&nbsp;who reportedly died following a tragic bus crash on the R66 in Melmoth over the weekend. Funeral arrangements&nbsp;are being facilitated, while the injured are being visited to provide further support and assistance as they recuperate&nbsp;in hospital.<\/p>\n<p>A preliminary investigation has revealed that the driver lost control of the bus, which led to it capsizing, killing five&nbsp;people instantly. Among those who died on the scene are an 11-month old baby. The sixth victim reportedly succumbed&nbsp;to injuries at Ngwelezane Hospital on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>RAF KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) Regional General Manager, Ntsoaki Kunene, said: &ldquo;Incidents such as these are particularly&nbsp;tragic when they involve multiple fatalities and injuries. Our staff will engage families of the deceased to facilitate&nbsp;funeral arrangements while providing advice about the RAF&rsquo;s service offering. After the burials, consultations will&nbsp;continue with the bereaved families to register claims for various qualifying benefits as stipulated in the RAF Act.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Family members who would like more information regarding the claims process and what they are eligible to claim&nbsp;for, are asked to kindly contact the RAF&rsquo;s regional office in KZN at The Embassy Building, 12th floor, 199 Anton&nbsp;Lembede Street, Durban.<\/p>\n<p>There are also 16 Hospital Service Centres which are easily accessible throughout the province: Edendale Hospital&nbsp;(Pietermaritzburg); Addington Hospital (Durban); Prince Mshiyeni Hospital (Umlazi); RK Khan&nbsp;Hospital&nbsp;Chatsworth);&nbsp;Emadadeni&nbsp;Hospital (Emadadeni); Newcastle Walk-In Centre (Newcastle, CBD), Ladysmith Hospital&nbsp;(Ladysmith); Greys Hospital (Pietermaritzburg); Ngwelezane Hospital (Empangeni); Vryheid Hospital (Vryheid);&nbsp;Stanger Hospital (Stanger); Port Shepstone Hospital (Port Shepstone); Bethesda Hospital (Mkhuze); Christ the&nbsp;King Hospital (Ixopo); E.G. Usher Hospital (Kokstad); and Northdale Hospital (Northdale).<\/p>\n<p>Further enquiries can be handled through the RAF Call Centre on 0860 23 55 23 between 07h45 to 18h00 from&nbsp;Monday to Friday. Assistance is available in any of the 11 official languages.<\/p>\n<p>The public can also follow us on social media for more information:<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/news.aspx?s=3&#038;i=35431&#038;page=RAF-intervenes-to-assist-families-of-Melmoth-fatal-bus-crash-in-KZN\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on Arrive Alive <\/a><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/arrive-alive.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4522\" src=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/arrive-alive.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"48\" height=\"48\" title=\"\"><\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today &#8211; Accidents<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Road Accident Fund (RAF) has quickly stepped in to ease the pain of families and relatives of the six people&nbsp;who reportedly died following a tragic bus crash on the R66 in Melmoth over the weekend. Funeral arrangements&nbsp;are being facilitated, while the injured are being visited to provide further support and assistance as they recuperate&nbsp;in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10201,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2149],"tags":[2150,2151,66,2152,168,2153,175],"class_list":["post-10200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-accidents","tag-bus","tag-bus-accident","tag-kwazulu-natal","tag-kzn","tag-news","tag-south-africa-accidents","tag-south-africa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10200\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}