{"id":40572,"date":"2025-10-26T14:33:25","date_gmt":"2025-10-26T12:33:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/pedestrian-struck-by-taxi-in-menlyn\/"},"modified":"2025-10-26T14:33:25","modified_gmt":"2025-10-26T12:33:25","slug":"pedestrian-struck-by-taxi-in-menlyn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/pedestrian-struck-by-taxi-in-menlyn\/","title":{"rendered":"Pedestrian Struck by Taxi in Menlyn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our Volunteer Community Responders attended to a pedestrian-vehicle accident in the Menlyn area, where a male was struck by a taxi and sustained serious head and body injuries.<\/p>\n<p>Upon arrival, it was established that the individual had been fleeing from SAPS members who intended to question him. During the pursuit, he ran into the road and was subsequently hit by the taxi.<\/p>\n<p>Our Community Responders assessed and treated the patient on scene before he was transported to a nearby hospital.<\/p>\n<p>We extend our thanks to all who assisted on scene:<\/p>\n<p>Old East Safety Forum<\/p>\n<p>Diplomatic SAPS<\/p>\n<p>#ItTakesACommunity&#8230;<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/news.aspx?s=1&#038;i=75041&#038;page=pedestrian-struck-by-taxi-in-menlyn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on Arrive Alive <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our Volunteer Community Responders attended to a pedestrian-vehicle accident in the Menlyn area, where a male was struck by a taxi and sustained serious head and body injuries. Upon arrival, it was established that the individual had been fleeing from SAPS members who intended to question him. During the pursuit, he ran into the road [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":40573,"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\/569171374_122155886168638513_2060028407026711620_n.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2149],"tags":[1888,1327],"class_list":["post-40572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-accidents","tag-taxi","tag-taxi-accident"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/\/ckfinder\/userfiles\/images\/569171374_122155886168638513_2060028407026711620_n.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40572","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=40572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40572\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}