{"id":39776,"date":"2025-09-23T11:31:18","date_gmt":"2025-09-23T09:31:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/15-injured-in-school-transport-collision-in-vryheid\/"},"modified":"2025-09-23T11:31:18","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T09:31:18","slug":"15-injured-in-school-transport-collision-in-vryheid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/15-injured-in-school-transport-collision-in-vryheid\/","title":{"rendered":"15 Injured in School Transport Collision in Vryheid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>KwaZulu Private Ambulance Service responded to a serious traffic collision on South Street, Vryheid, at approximately 06:00 this morning involving a school transport bakkie and a motor vehicle.<br \/>\nThe collision occurred when the bakkie, carrying school children aged between 8 and 18 years, collided with the side of a car. Emergency services arrived on scene to find multiple casualties requiring immediate medical attention.<\/p>\n<p>Paramedics quickly triaged the scene and provided emergency medical care to the injured parties. Of the total casualties, three patients sustained serious injuries and were prioritized for urgent transport, while 12 additional patients sustained minor injuries.<\/p>\n<p>All 15 injured parties have been transported to local medical facilities for further treatment and care.<\/p>\n<p>The cause of the collision remains under investigation by the relevant authorities. No further details are available at this time.<\/p>\n<p>The collision occurred when the bakkie, carrying school children&#8230;<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/news.aspx?s=1&#038;i=74681&#038;page=15-injured-in-school-transport-collision-in-vryheid\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on Arrive Alive <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KwaZulu Private Ambulance Service responded to a serious traffic collision on South Street, Vryheid, at approximately 06:00 this morning involving a school transport bakkie and a motor vehicle. The collision occurred when the bakkie, carrying school children aged between 8 and 18 years, collided with the side of a car. Emergency services arrived on scene [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39777,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/\/ckfinder\/userfiles\/images\/Screenshot%202025-09-23%20074952.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2149],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-accidents"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/\/ckfinder\/userfiles\/images\/Screenshot%202025-09-23%20074952.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39776","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=39776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39776\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}