{"id":40225,"date":"2025-10-16T13:34:25","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T11:34:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/six-injured-including-four-school-bound-children-in-morning-collision-on-sweetwater-road-pmb\/"},"modified":"2025-10-16T13:34:25","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T11:34:25","slug":"six-injured-including-four-school-bound-children-in-morning-collision-on-sweetwater-road-pmb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/six-injured-including-four-school-bound-children-in-morning-collision-on-sweetwater-road-pmb\/","title":{"rendered":"Six Injured Including Four School-Bound Children in Morning Collision on Sweetwater Road, PMB"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A two-vehicle collision on Sweetwater Road during Thursday morning&#039;s rush hour left six people injured, including four children who were traveling to school when a bakkie and car collided at approximately 8:00 AM.<\/p>\n<p>KwaZulu Private Ambulance Service paramedics arrived on scene to discover six patients requiring immediate medical attention, with one adult sustaining serious injuries including suspected broken bones.<\/p>\n<p>The collision occurred on a routine morning school run, with four young children aged between 6 and 11 years caught up in the impact. Advanced life support paramedics conducted rapid triage and assessment, stabilizing the seriously injured adult patient while simultaneously providing medical care to the  patients. <\/p>\n<p> KwaZulu Private Ambulance Service working alongside Fire and Rescue Services, ER24 Ambulance, and Traffic officials ensured comprehensive scene management, patient care, and traffic control throughout the incident.<\/p>\n<p>Paramedics treated all six patients&#8230;<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/news.aspx?s=1&#038;i=74921&#038;page=six-injured-including-four-school-bound-children-in-morning-collision-on-sweetwater-road-pmb\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on Arrive Alive <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A two-vehicle collision on Sweetwater Road during Thursday morning&#039;s rush hour left six people injured, including four children who were traveling to school when a bakkie and car collided at approximately 8:00 AM. KwaZulu Private Ambulance Service paramedics arrived on scene to discover six patients requiring immediate medical attention, with one adult sustaining serious injuries [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":40226,"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\/WhatsApp%20Image%202025-10-16%20at%2009_11_13.jpeg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2149],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-accidents"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/\/ckfinder\/userfiles\/images\/WhatsApp%20Image%202025-10-16%20at%2009_11_13.jpeg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40225","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=40225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40225\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}