{"id":39822,"date":"2025-09-25T23:46:42","date_gmt":"2025-09-25T21:46:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/taxi-collides-into-light-pole-verulam-kzn\/"},"modified":"2025-09-25T23:46:42","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T21:46:42","slug":"taxi-collides-into-light-pole-verulam-kzn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/taxi-collides-into-light-pole-verulam-kzn\/","title":{"rendered":"Taxi Collides Into Light Pole: Verulam &#8211; KZN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No injuries were reported after a taxi collided with a bakkie and subsequently crashed into a light pole on Todd Street near the Himalaya Drive entrance in Verulam &#8211; KZN this afternoon (Thursday).<\/p>\n<p>Members of Reaction Unit South Africa (RUSA) were called to the scene at approximately 18:54. Upon arrival, Reaction Officers discovered a grey Toyota Quantum that had struck a light pole.<\/p>\n<p>It was established that the minibus was travelling behind a white Ford Bantam bakkie. The taxi driver attempted to overtake the bakkie, unaware that the vehicle in front was turning into a service station. <\/p>\n<p>As a result, the Toyota Quantum struck the bakkie, veered across the road, and collided with the light pole&#8230;.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/news.aspx?s=1&#038;i=74715&#038;page=taxi-collides-into-light-pole-verulam-kzn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on Arrive Alive <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No injuries were reported after a taxi collided with a bakkie and subsequently crashed into a light pole on Todd Street near the Himalaya Drive entrance in Verulam &#8211; KZN this afternoon (Thursday). Members of Reaction Unit South Africa (RUSA) were called to the scene at approximately 18:54. Upon arrival, Reaction Officers discovered a grey [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39823,"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\/554228820_1230880269065730_8026905347264287071_n.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2149],"tags":[66,2152,1888,1327],"class_list":["post-39822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-accidents","tag-kwazulu-natal","tag-kzn","tag-taxi","tag-taxi-accident"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/\/ckfinder\/userfiles\/images\/554228820_1230880269065730_8026905347264287071_n.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39822","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=39822"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39822\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}