{"id":40111,"date":"2025-10-11T01:07:28","date_gmt":"2025-10-10T23:07:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/head-on-collision-leaves-2-dead-and-2-critical-at-kzn-taylors-halt\/"},"modified":"2025-10-11T01:07:28","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T23:07:28","slug":"head-on-collision-leaves-2-dead-and-2-critical-at-kzn-taylors-halt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/head-on-collision-leaves-2-dead-and-2-critical-at-kzn-taylors-halt\/","title":{"rendered":"Head-on collision leaves 2 dead and 2 critical at KZN Taylor\u2019s Halt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Midlands EMS Rescue Medics, together with Midlands EMS Advanced Life Support paramedics and crews, were dispatched to the M70 Edendale Road for a head-on collision.<\/p>\n<p>On arrival, it was found that two bakkies had collided head-on, both sustaining severe damage. One of the bakkies left the roadway and went down a steep embankment following the impact.<\/p>\n<p>Tragically, two people, including an 18-year-old, sustained fatal injuries and were declared deceased on scene.<\/p>\n<p>Paramedics worked tirelessly to stabilise the remaining two patients, both in a critical condition, before transporting them to a nearby hospital for further care.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities are currently in attendance, and the scene remains active&#8230;.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/news.aspx?s=1&#038;i=74857&#038;page=head-on-collision-leaves-2-dead-and-2-critical-at-kzn-taylor-s-halt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on Arrive Alive <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Midlands EMS Rescue Medics, together with Midlands EMS Advanced Life Support paramedics and crews, were dispatched to the M70 Edendale Road for a head-on collision. On arrival, it was found that two bakkies had collided head-on, both sustaining severe damage. One of the bakkies left the roadway and went down a steep embankment following the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":40112,"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\/561258592_1380879717374224_747726350055736353_n.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2149],"tags":[66,2152],"class_list":["post-40111","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\/561258592_1380879717374224_747726350055736353_n.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40111","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=40111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40111\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}