{"id":40093,"date":"2025-10-10T01:02:15","date_gmt":"2025-10-09T23:02:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/heavy-motor-vehicle-accident-hmva-n4-between-marikana-tollgate-and-buffelspoort\/"},"modified":"2025-10-10T01:02:15","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T23:02:15","slug":"heavy-motor-vehicle-accident-hmva-n4-between-marikana-tollgate-and-buffelspoort","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/heavy-motor-vehicle-accident-hmva-n4-between-marikana-tollgate-and-buffelspoort\/","title":{"rendered":"Heavy Motor Vehicle Accident (HMVA) \u2013 N4 between Marikana Tollgate and Buffelspoort"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At approximately 15:47 this afternoon, Rustenburg First Responders received a call reporting a heavy motor vehicle accident involving two trucks on the N4 between Marikana Tollgate and Buffelspoort.<\/p>\n<p>Information received indicated a head-on collision between two trucks, with one vehicle catching fire upon impact. Rustenburg First Responders, together with EMS from Trauma Rescue EMS, ER24 EMS, JustMed24 EMS, and Fire and Rescue services, were immediately dispatched to the scene.<\/p>\n<p>Upon arrival, it was found that one truck driver had unfortunately succumbed to his injuries, while the other driver sustained moderate injuries. The surviving patient was treated, stabilised, and transported to hospital for further medical care.<\/p>\n<p>This scene was attended by Rustenburg First Responders, Trauma Rescue EMS, ER24 EMS, JustMed24 EMS, Fire and Rescue Services, Traffic Department, and Bakwena N4 Services.<\/p>\n<p>Truck and Freight&#8230;<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/news.aspx?s=1&#038;i=74845&#038;page=heavy-motor-vehicle-accident-hmva-n4-between-marikana-tollgate-and-buffelspoort\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on Arrive Alive <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At approximately 15:47 this afternoon, Rustenburg First Responders received a call reporting a heavy motor vehicle accident involving two trucks on the N4 between Marikana Tollgate and Buffelspoort. Information received indicated a head-on collision between two trucks, with one vehicle catching fire upon impact. Rustenburg First Responders, together with EMS from Trauma Rescue EMS, ER24 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":40094,"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\/558184255_122140582940861967_8151784889660888683_n.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2149],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-accidents"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/\/ckfinder\/userfiles\/images\/558184255_122140582940861967_8151784889660888683_n.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40093","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=40093"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40093\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}