{"id":40612,"date":"2025-10-27T20:42:14","date_gmt":"2025-10-27T18:42:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/four-killed-in-a-motor-vehicle-crash-in-wolmaransstad\/"},"modified":"2025-10-27T20:42:14","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T18:42:14","slug":"four-killed-in-a-motor-vehicle-crash-in-wolmaransstad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/four-killed-in-a-motor-vehicle-crash-in-wolmaransstad\/","title":{"rendered":"Four killed in a motor vehicle crash in Wolmaransstad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Four people, aged between 25 and 35 have died in a motor vehicle accident in Wolmaransstad on Sunday, 26th of October 2025 at around 12H:30 in the afternoon. The four, all men and all related have gathered for a family tombstone when they decided to visit another family members in nearby Makwassie.<\/p>\n<p>They were altogether five in a sedan when they met their untimely passing. It is alleged the driver was overtaking three other vehicles when he lost control of the car which then overturned several times on R 505 road between Wolmaransstad and Makwassie.<\/p>\n<p>Three, including the driver who is a teacher at the local school died at the scene of the accident. Two of the passengers were taken to the hospital where one unfortunately succumbed to the injuries leaving a sole survivor who is still recuperating at the hospital.<\/p>\n<p>The MEC for the North West Department of Community Safety and Transport Management, Wessels Morweng sends condolences to the bereaved families and wishes speedy recovery to&#8230;<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/news.aspx?s=1&#038;i=75060&#038;page=four-killed-in-a-motor-vehicle-crash-in-wolmaransstad\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on Arrive Alive <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Four people, aged between 25 and 35 have died in a motor vehicle accident in Wolmaransstad on Sunday, 26th of October 2025 at around 12H:30 in the afternoon. The four, all men and all related have gathered for a family tombstone when they decided to visit another family members in nearby Makwassie. They were altogether [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":40613,"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\/wall_image(1).jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2149],"tags":[229],"class_list":["post-40612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-accidents","tag-north-west"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/\/ckfinder\/userfiles\/images\/wall_image(1).jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40612","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=40612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40612\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}