{"id":39966,"date":"2025-10-04T12:35:16","date_gmt":"2025-10-04T10:35:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/temporary-closure-of-the-hugenot-tunnel-after-a-bus-caught-alight\/"},"modified":"2025-10-04T12:35:16","modified_gmt":"2025-10-04T10:35:16","slug":"temporary-closure-of-the-hugenot-tunnel-after-a-bus-caught-alight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/temporary-closure-of-the-hugenot-tunnel-after-a-bus-caught-alight\/","title":{"rendered":"Temporary closure of the Hugenot Tunnel after a bus caught alight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During the early hours of Saturday, 4 October 2025, Drakenstein Municipality Fire Services, together with the Tunnel Fire Team, responded to a bus that caught alight inside the Hugenot Tunnel due to an electrical fault.<\/p>\n<p>All passengers were evacuated safely. One patient sustained minor injuries and was taken to hospital. No further injuries have been reported.<\/p>\n<p>The tunnel will remain closed until further notice.<\/p>\n<p>Please make use of alternative routes until it reopens.<\/p>\n<p>Drakenstein Municipality <\/p>\n<p>Temporary closure of the Hugenot Tunnel after a bus caught alighthttps:\/\/t.co\/8lAx4F01q2#ArriveAlive #BusFire #HugenotTunnel pic.twitter.com\/STanBzYWlX&mdash; Arrive Alive (@_ArriveAlive) October 4, 2025&#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=74795&#038;page=temporary-closure-of-the-hugenot-tunnel-after-a-bus-caught-alight\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on Arrive Alive <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During the early hours of Saturday, 4 October 2025, Drakenstein Municipality Fire Services, together with the Tunnel Fire Team, responded to a bus that caught alight inside the Hugenot Tunnel due to an electrical fault. All passengers were evacuated safely. One patient sustained minor injuries and was taken to hospital. No further injuries have been [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39967,"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\/557360670_1115515400705141_3274405591051355779_n.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2149],"tags":[2150,2151],"class_list":["post-39966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-accidents","tag-bus","tag-bus-accident"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/\/ckfinder\/userfiles\/images\/557360670_1115515400705141_3274405591051355779_n.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39966","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=39966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39966\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}