{"id":40161,"date":"2025-10-13T13:19:54","date_gmt":"2025-10-13T11:19:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/transport-ministers-devastated-after-horrific-bus-crash-claims-42-lives-in-limpopo\/"},"modified":"2025-10-13T13:19:54","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T11:19:54","slug":"transport-ministers-devastated-after-horrific-bus-crash-claims-42-lives-in-limpopo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/transport-ministers-devastated-after-horrific-bus-crash-claims-42-lives-in-limpopo\/","title":{"rendered":"Transport Ministers devastated after horrific bus crash claims 42 lives in Limpopo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pretoria: Transport Minister Ms. Barbara Creecy and Deputy Minister Mr. Mkhuleko Hlengwa are deeply saddened by the tragic loss of 42 lives and 49 injured passengers in a devastating road accident that occurred on Sunday, 12 October 202,5 at approximately 18:00 on the N1 North near Ingwe Lodge, Limpopo. <\/p>\n<p>Consequently, they have expressed their heartfelt felt condolences to the bereaved families and wished a speedy recovery to the passengers who were injured<\/p>\n<p>The crash involved a bus that was travelling from Johannesburg to Zimbabwe, which overturned and went down an embankment. The following casualties were reported from the scene:<\/p>\n<p>42 fatalities, consisting of:<br \/>\n7 children,<br \/>\n17 adult males and<br \/>\n18 adult females <\/p>\n<p>There were 49 injured persons, consisting of:<\/p>\n<p>6 critically injured,<br \/>\n31 seriously injured and<br \/>\n12 slightly injured occupants.<\/p>\n<p>The injured persons were transported to Louis Trichardt, Siloam and Elim hospitals. 1x critically injured child was airlifted to Tshilidzini&#8230;<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/news.aspx?s=2&#038;i=74886&#038;page=transport-ministers-devastated-after-horrific-bus-crash-claims-42-lives-in-limpopo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on Arrive Alive <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pretoria: Transport Minister Ms. Barbara Creecy and Deputy Minister Mr. Mkhuleko Hlengwa are deeply saddened by the tragic loss of 42 lives and 49 injured passengers in a devastating road accident that occurred on Sunday, 12 October 202,5 at approximately 18:00 on the N1 North near Ingwe Lodge, Limpopo. Consequently, they have expressed their heartfelt [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":40162,"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\/559779327_1297833865688730_163101383695080083_n(1).jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2149],"tags":[2150,2151,339],"class_list":["post-40161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-accidents","tag-bus","tag-bus-accident","tag-limpopo"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/\/ckfinder\/userfiles\/images\/559779327_1297833865688730_163101383695080083_n(1).jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40161","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=40161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40161\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}