{"id":40365,"date":"2025-10-20T13:53:13","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T11:53:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/pedestrian-injured-in-hit-and-run-accident-tongaat-kzn\/"},"modified":"2025-10-20T13:53:13","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T11:53:13","slug":"pedestrian-injured-in-hit-and-run-accident-tongaat-kzn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/pedestrian-injured-in-hit-and-run-accident-tongaat-kzn\/","title":{"rendered":"Pedestrian Injured in Hit-and-Run Accident: Tongaat &#8211; KZN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A pedestrian sustained minor injuries in a hit-and-run accident this morning (Monday) at the entrance of Buffelsdale in Tongaat &#8211; KZN. <\/p>\n<p>The Reaction Unit South Africa (RUSA) Tongaat Operations Centre received a distress call at approximately 05:37 from a passerby reporting the accident. Reaction Officers were immediately dispatched to the scene.<\/p>\n<p>On arrival, it was established that the pedestrian was waiting for his work transport when a red Hyundai i10, with an unknown registration number, took a wide turn into Buffersdale, Tongaat &#8211; KZN, and struck him. The driver of the vehicle failed to stop and fled the scene without offering assistance. The pedestrian suffered minor injuries to his right hand and head. <\/p>\n<p>He was transported privately to a medical facility by his work colleagues for treatment&#8230;.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/news.aspx?s=1&#038;i=74961&#038;page=pedestrian-injured-in-hit-and-run-accident-tongaat-kzn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on Arrive Alive <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A pedestrian sustained minor injuries in a hit-and-run accident this morning (Monday) at the entrance of Buffelsdale in Tongaat &#8211; KZN. The Reaction Unit South Africa (RUSA) Tongaat Operations Centre received a distress call at approximately 05:37 from a passerby reporting the accident. Reaction Officers were immediately dispatched to the scene. On arrival, it was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":40366,"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\/Screenshot%202025-10-20%20094943.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2149],"tags":[66,2152],"class_list":["post-40365","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\/Screenshot%202025-10-20%20094943.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40365","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=40365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40365\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}