{"id":40211,"date":"2025-10-16T01:32:17","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T23:32:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/horrific-head-on-collision-on-richmond-road-near-trafford-road-in-the-westmead-area-of-pinetown\/"},"modified":"2025-10-16T01:32:17","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T23:32:17","slug":"horrific-head-on-collision-on-richmond-road-near-trafford-road-in-the-westmead-area-of-pinetown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/horrific-head-on-collision-on-richmond-road-near-trafford-road-in-the-westmead-area-of-pinetown\/","title":{"rendered":"Horrific head-on collision on Richmond Road near Trafford Road in the Westmead area of Pinetown."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just after 6 pm on Wednesday evening, ALS Paramedics responded to a horrific head on collision on Richmond Road near Trafford Road in the Westmead area of Pinetown.<\/p>\n<p>Paramedics arrived on the scene to find carnage as they found the two badly damaged vehicles had collided head on leaving two people entrapped in the vehicle. Immediately the Ethekweni Fire Department was dispatched to assist. Together with Redline Response Rescue teams used the Jaws of Life and other hydraulic equipment to extricate the two. Once freed the patients were carefully extricated and placed into awaiting Ambulances. In one of the vehicles was a family of four including two young little girls aged approximately Four and Six years old.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, the four-year-old little girl had sustained multiple injuries and there was nothing Paramedics could do for her and she was declared deceased on the scene. The remaining family members had all sustained serious injuries and once stabilized on the scene they were&#8230;<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/news.aspx?s=1&#038;i=74917&#038;page=horrific-head-on-collision-on-richmond-road-near-trafford-road-in-the-westmead-area-of-pinetown\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on Arrive Alive <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just after 6 pm on Wednesday evening, ALS Paramedics responded to a horrific head on collision on Richmond Road near Trafford Road in the Westmead area of Pinetown. Paramedics arrived on the scene to find carnage as they found the two badly damaged vehicles had collided head on leaving two people entrapped in the vehicle. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":40212,"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\/565333357_1271031641706732_8405601027103923368_n.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2149],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-accidents"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/\/ckfinder\/userfiles\/images\/565333357_1271031641706732_8405601027103923368_n.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40211","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=40211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40211\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}