{"id":40843,"date":"2025-11-03T21:14:58","date_gmt":"2025-11-03T19:14:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/multiple-casualties-as-construction-workers-bakkie-overturns-on-n2-near-mtwalume\/"},"modified":"2025-11-03T21:14:58","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T19:14:58","slug":"multiple-casualties-as-construction-workers-bakkie-overturns-on-n2-near-mtwalume","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/multiple-casualties-as-construction-workers-bakkie-overturns-on-n2-near-mtwalume\/","title":{"rendered":"Multiple Casualties as Construction Workers&#039; Bakkie Overturns on N2 Near Mtwalume"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A devastating single-vehicle accident left fifteen construction workers injured this evening after their bakkie lost control and violently overturned along the N2 near Mtwalume on the lower south coast. The incident occurred at approximately 5:30 PM as workers were making their way home. <\/p>\n<p>The bakkie, which was transporting fourteen passengers, careened off the roadway before rolling multiple times and coming to rest wedged between dense bushes and trees alongside the highway. The violent nature of the crash scattered debris across the scene and left the vehicle severely mangled in the vegetation.<\/p>\n<p>Emergency services arrived to a chaotic scene requiring a multi-agency response. Fifteen patients presented with injuries ranging from life-threatening to minor, demanding immediate triage and coordinated medical intervention.<\/p>\n<p>Two patients sustained critical injuries in the devastating rollover, suffering severe head trauma and multiple fractures that required urgent advanced life support&#8230;<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/news.aspx?s=1&#038;i=75148&#038;page=multiple-casualties-as-construction-workers-bakkie-overturns-on-n2-near-mtwalume\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on Arrive Alive <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A devastating single-vehicle accident left fifteen construction workers injured this evening after their bakkie lost control and violently overturned along the N2 near Mtwalume on the lower south coast. The incident occurred at approximately 5:30 PM as workers were making their way home. The bakkie, which was transporting fourteen passengers, careened off the roadway before [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":40844,"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%202025-11-03%20193401.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2149],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-accidents"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/\/ckfinder\/userfiles\/images\/Screenshot%202025-11-03%20193401.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40843","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=40843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40843\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}