{"id":40743,"date":"2025-10-31T21:02:05","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T19:02:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/one-killed-and-six-injured-in-durban-central-crash\/"},"modified":"2025-10-31T21:02:05","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T19:02:05","slug":"one-killed-and-six-injured-in-durban-central-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/one-killed-and-six-injured-in-durban-central-crash\/","title":{"rendered":"One Killed and Six injured in Durban Central Crash."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just after 3pm on Friday Afternoon ALS Paramedics responded to numerous calls of a serious multiple vehicles Crash on Masabalala Yengwa Avenue and Somtseu Road in the Durban CBD.<\/p>\n<p>Paramedics arrived on the scene to find chaos and carnage as they found multiple vehicles damaged with one vehicle found on its side with the driver entrapped. Multiple casualties were found and immediately more Ambulances as well as Advanced Life Support Paramedics were dispatched to assist on the scene. <\/p>\n<p>Paramedics together with Ethekweni Fire Department found the one driver entrapped in the wreckage and carefully extricated the man who then went into a state of Cardiac arrest. Despite all resuscitation efforts the male in his nineties passed away at the scene. A futher six people had sustained various injuries and once stabilized on the scene they were transported to nearby Hospitals for the further care that they required. <\/p>\n<p>The roadway was closed for sometime whilst emergency personnel worked to clear&#8230;<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/news.aspx?s=1&#038;i=75111&#038;page=one-killed-and-six-injured-in-durban-central-crash\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on Arrive Alive <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just after 3pm on Friday Afternoon ALS Paramedics responded to numerous calls of a serious multiple vehicles Crash on Masabalala Yengwa Avenue and Somtseu Road in the Durban CBD. Paramedics arrived on the scene to find chaos and carnage as they found multiple vehicles damaged with one vehicle found on its side with the driver [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":40744,"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\/572507703_1284886653654564_2886655621156829470_n.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2149],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-accidents"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/\/ckfinder\/userfiles\/images\/572507703_1284886653654564_2886655621156829470_n.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40743","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=40743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40743\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}