{"id":39787,"date":"2025-09-23T23:33:04","date_gmt":"2025-09-23T21:33:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/a-container-on-a-truck-overturned-coming-to-rest-on-top-of-a-passing-vehicle-on-harry-gwala-road\/"},"modified":"2025-09-23T23:33:04","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T21:33:04","slug":"a-container-on-a-truck-overturned-coming-to-rest-on-top-of-a-passing-vehicle-on-harry-gwala-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/a-container-on-a-truck-overturned-coming-to-rest-on-top-of-a-passing-vehicle-on-harry-gwala-road\/","title":{"rendered":"A container on a truck overturned coming to rest on top of a passing vehicle on Harry Gwala Road"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just after 5pm on Monday evening ALS Paramedics responded to a serious crash on Harry Gwala Road (old Spine Road) just after the Pavilion Shopping Center. <\/p>\n<p>Paramedics arrived on the scene and were shocked to find that a trucks container had overturned coming to rest on top of a passing vehicle. A second vehicle was also involved.<\/p>\n<p>Paramedics assessed the scene and found that the two drivers of the light motor vehicles had sustained moderate injuries and were stabilized on the scene by Advanced Life Support Paramedics before being transported to a nearby Hospital for further care. The truck driver was not found on scene and witnesses alleged he ran away however this can not be confirmed. <\/p>\n<p>The roadway will be obstructed for some time to allow for recovery operation. <\/p>\n<p>At this stage the events leading up to the crash is unknown however Metro Police were in attendance and will be investigating further.<\/p>\n<p>Truck and Freight<\/p>\n<p>A container on a truck overturned, coming to rest&#8230;<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/news.aspx?s=1&#038;i=74690&#038;page=a-container-on-a-truck-overturned-coming-to-rest-on-top-of-a-passing-vehicle-on-harry-gwala-road\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on Arrive Alive <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just after 5pm on Monday evening ALS Paramedics responded to a serious crash on Harry Gwala Road (old Spine Road) just after the Pavilion Shopping Center. Paramedics arrived on the scene and were shocked to find that a trucks container had overturned coming to rest on top of a passing vehicle. A second vehicle was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39788,"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%20191157.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2149],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39787","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%20191157.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39787","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=39787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39787\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}