{"id":39943,"date":"2025-10-03T00:24:19","date_gmt":"2025-10-02T22:24:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/biker-killed-in-accident-tongaat-kzn\/"},"modified":"2025-10-03T00:24:19","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T22:24:19","slug":"biker-killed-in-accident-tongaat-kzn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/biker-killed-in-accident-tongaat-kzn\/","title":{"rendered":"Biker Killed In Accident: Tongaat &#8211; KZN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 23-year-old biker lost his life this afternoon (Thursday) while trying to overtake an articulated truck on the R102 in Greylands &#8211; KZN.<\/p>\n<p>A member of Reaction Unit South Africa (RUSA) was returning from an unrelated callout when he arrived at the scene around 18:22. The Reaction Officer spoke with the truck driver, who stated he was travelling towards Ballito &#8211; KZN. The motorcycle was heading in the same direction. The biker attempted to overtake but crashed into the side of the truck. The trucker attempted to stop quickly, which caused the truck to jackknife.<\/p>\n<p>The Big Boy delivery motorcycle was extensively damaged. The biker was found a few metres away on the grass verge. Paramedics arrived shortly after, but he was pronounced deceased due to severe injuries.<\/p>\n<p>The truck driver was visibly shaken but not injured.<\/p>\n<p>Biker Killed In Accident: Tongaat &#8211; KZNhttps:\/\/t.co\/Y3n2S8xXr6#ArriveAlive #BikeCrash @motocyclesafety pic.twitter.com\/ypB8lHFvQS&mdash; Arrive Alive (@_ArriveAlive)&#8230;<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/news.aspx?s=1&#038;i=74781&#038;page=biker-killed-in-accident-tongaat-kzn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on Arrive Alive <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 23-year-old biker lost his life this afternoon (Thursday) while trying to overtake an articulated truck on the R102 in Greylands &#8211; KZN. A member of Reaction Unit South Africa (RUSA) was returning from an unrelated callout when he arrived at the scene around 18:22. The Reaction Officer spoke with the truck driver, who stated [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39944,"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\/558273364_1237044931782597_560991467658374470_n.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2149],"tags":[66,2152],"class_list":["post-39943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-accidents","tag-kwazulu-natal","tag-kzn"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/\/ckfinder\/userfiles\/images\/558273364_1237044931782597_560991467658374470_n.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39943","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=39943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39943\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}