{"id":41483,"date":"2025-11-25T05:11:34","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T03:11:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/multi-vehicle-collision-near-vryheid-results-in-multiple-critical-and-serious-injuries\/"},"modified":"2025-11-25T05:11:34","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T03:11:34","slug":"multi-vehicle-collision-near-vryheid-results-in-multiple-critical-and-serious-injuries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/multi-vehicle-collision-near-vryheid-results-in-multiple-critical-and-serious-injuries\/","title":{"rendered":"Multi-Vehicle Collision Near Vryheid Results in Multiple Critical and Serious Injuries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>KwaZulu Private Ambulance and multiple emergency services responded to a devastating collision this afternoon, Monday, November 24, 2025, at 16h45, involving a bakkie and a heavy motor vehicle at the critical intersection of the R33 and R34, just outside of Vryheid.<\/p>\n<p>?Emergency services arrived at a chaotic and severely compromised scene where the heavy motor vehicle lay overturned, the light delivery vehicle sustained significant front-end damage. Preliminary on-scene reports suggest the collision occurred after the truck allegedly failed to stop at the intersection, resulting in the bakkie colliding into the truck&#039;s side.<\/p>\n<p>?A comprehensive triage and treatment process was immediately initiated for the six patients discovered across the scene. <\/p>\n<p>?Two Critical Patients: One patient from the truck and one from the bakkie sustained severe, life-threatening head injuries. These patients required immediate, advanced life support interventions to stabilise their condition on scene.<\/p>\n<p>?Three&#8230;<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/news.aspx?s=1&#038;i=75392&#038;page=multi-vehicle-collision-near-vryheid-results-in-multiple-critical-and-serious-injuries\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on Arrive Alive <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KwaZulu Private Ambulance and multiple emergency services responded to a devastating collision this afternoon, Monday, November 24, 2025, at 16h45, involving a bakkie and a heavy motor vehicle at the critical intersection of the R33 and R34, just outside of Vryheid. ?Emergency services arrived at a chaotic and severely compromised scene where the heavy motor [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":41484,"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%202025-11-24%20181315.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2149],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-accidents"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/\/ckfinder\/userfiles\/images\/Screenshot%202025-11-24%20181315.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41483","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=41483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41483\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}