{"id":40275,"date":"2025-10-18T07:45:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-18T05:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/driver-miraculously-survives-serious-vehicle-accident-in-northern-paarl\/"},"modified":"2025-10-18T07:45:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-18T05:45:08","slug":"driver-miraculously-survives-serious-vehicle-accident-in-northern-paarl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/driver-miraculously-survives-serious-vehicle-accident-in-northern-paarl\/","title":{"rendered":"Driver miraculously survives serious vehicle accident in northern Paarl."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Local Farm manager lands up side down in a ditch at R44 Malmesburry Road Paarl, damaging the vehicle beyond repair and being helped out from underneath by road workers with allegedly only minor injuries. <\/p>\n<p>As the accident happened, a bystander called the DFW commander for help. <\/p>\n<p>Within minutes, a DFW EFAR crew ( emergency first aid responders) responded, while they contacted EMS metro Rescue and ambulance services for assistance, while dfw control alerted traffic and police.<\/p>\n<p>On site, the patient was treated and loaded into the EMS metro Ambulance and on its way to mediclinic hospital.<\/p>\n<p>We wish him a speedy recovery and we thank all who responded so quick.<\/p>\n<p>DFW Fire &amp; Rescue NPC<br \/>\n084 752 8120 ( also whatsapp)<br \/>\nDrakensteinfw@gmail.com<br \/>\nPaarl Post Drakenstein Municipality&#8230;<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/news.aspx?s=1&#038;i=74940&#038;page=driver-miraculously-survives-serious-vehicle-accident-in-northern-paarl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on Arrive Alive <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Local Farm manager lands up side down in a ditch at R44 Malmesburry Road Paarl, damaging the vehicle beyond repair and being helped out from underneath by road workers with allegedly only minor injuries. As the accident happened, a bystander called the DFW commander for help. Within minutes, a DFW EFAR crew ( emergency first [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":40276,"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\/514347402_1348050484033319_2823233513234066144_n.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2149],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-accidents"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/\/ckfinder\/userfiles\/images\/514347402_1348050484033319_2823233513234066144_n.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40275","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=40275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40275\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}