{"id":41213,"date":"2025-11-16T10:21:37","date_gmt":"2025-11-16T08:21:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/pedestrian-struck-by-a-heavy-motor-vehicle-in-the-watloo-area\/"},"modified":"2025-11-16T10:21:37","modified_gmt":"2025-11-16T08:21:37","slug":"pedestrian-struck-by-a-heavy-motor-vehicle-in-the-watloo-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/pedestrian-struck-by-a-heavy-motor-vehicle-in-the-watloo-area\/","title":{"rendered":"Pedestrian struck by a heavy motor vehicle in the Watloo area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PVES members responded to a severe pedestrian-vehicle accident in the Watloo area after a pedestrian was struck by a heavy motor vehicle. On arrival, the patient was unresponsive with agonal breathing. GPG arrived on scene at the same time, and together the patient was placed onto a spine board and moved to the ambulance.<\/p>\n<p>GPG ambulance crews took over treatment and initiated resuscitation efforts. Despite multiple rounds of CPR and advanced life-support interventions, the patient sadly succumbed to her injuries. The scene was handed over to SAPS Silverton for further investigation.<\/p>\n<p>Services on Scene:<br \/>\nSAPS Silverton<br \/>\nGPG RV<br \/>\nGauteng Emergency Medical Services<br \/>\nER24 EMS (Pty) Ltd.<\/p>\n<p>Truck and Freight&#8230;<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/news.aspx?s=1&#038;i=75286&#038;page=pedestrian-struck-by-a-heavy-motor-vehicle-in-the-watloo-area\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on Arrive Alive <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PVES members responded to a severe pedestrian-vehicle accident in the Watloo area after a pedestrian was struck by a heavy motor vehicle. On arrival, the patient was unresponsive with agonal breathing. GPG arrived on scene at the same time, and together the patient was placed onto a spine board and moved to the ambulance. GPG [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":41214,"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\/580506424_122164251608596882_4802327171188804453_n.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2149],"tags":[164],"class_list":["post-41213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-accidents","tag-gauteng"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/\/ckfinder\/userfiles\/images\/580506424_122164251608596882_4802327171188804453_n.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41213","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=41213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41213\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}