{"id":41099,"date":"2025-11-12T03:59:13","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T01:59:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/reportedly-drunk-driver-crashes-into-taxi-ten-scholars-injured-brindhaven-kzn\/"},"modified":"2025-11-12T03:59:13","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T01:59:13","slug":"reportedly-drunk-driver-crashes-into-taxi-ten-scholars-injured-brindhaven-kzn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/reportedly-drunk-driver-crashes-into-taxi-ten-scholars-injured-brindhaven-kzn\/","title":{"rendered":"Reportedly Drunk Driver Crashes Into Taxi\/Ten Scholars Injured:  Brindhaven &#8211; KZN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Members of Reaction Unit South Africa (RUSA) apprehended a drunk driver on Ginger Grove in Brindhaven &#8211; KZN this afternoon (Tuesday) after fleeing the scene of an accident that injured ten scholars. <\/p>\n<p>Reaction Officers were dispatched after the Operations Center received numerous calls regarding a collision with multiple injuries on Rosemary Drive &#8211; Brindhaven in Kwazulu Natal. <\/p>\n<p>Upon arrival, Officers found approximately ten children from Verulam Primary School, Trenance Park Primary, and Trenance Park Secondary injured when a driver of a silver Suzuki Tiggo crashed into a minibus taxi. Both vehicles were loaded with scholars. Reaction Officers apprehended the driver of the Suzuki, who was heavily intoxicated, near the scene (picture 1\/8\/10). <\/p>\n<p>Paramedics &amp; Officers from the Metro Police, KZN VIP, the South African Police Services (SAPS), and other private companies attended the scene.<\/p>\n<p>Reportedly Drunk Driver Crashes Into Taxi\/Ten Scholars Injured: Brindhaven &#8211; KZNhttps:\/\/t.co\/rkrGnKYUbh#ArriveAlive&#8230;<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/news.aspx?s=1&#038;i=75236&#038;page=reportedly-drunk-driver-crashes-into-taxi-ten-scholars-injured-brindhaven-kzn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on Arrive Alive <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Members of Reaction Unit South Africa (RUSA) apprehended a drunk driver on Ginger Grove in Brindhaven &#8211; KZN this afternoon (Tuesday) after fleeing the scene of an accident that injured ten scholars. Reaction Officers were dispatched after the Operations Center received numerous calls regarding a collision with multiple injuries on Rosemary Drive &#8211; Brindhaven in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":41100,"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\/579243720_1272835844870172_8290585140853550868_n.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2149],"tags":[66,2152,1888,1327],"class_list":["post-41099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-accidents","tag-kwazulu-natal","tag-kzn","tag-taxi","tag-taxi-accident"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/\/ckfinder\/userfiles\/images\/579243720_1272835844870172_8290585140853550868_n.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41099","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=41099"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41099\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}