{"id":41597,"date":"2025-11-29T11:35:06","date_gmt":"2025-11-29T09:35:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/fatal-collision-on-the-r23-road-between-heidelberg-and-balfour\/"},"modified":"2025-11-29T11:35:06","modified_gmt":"2025-11-29T09:35:06","slug":"fatal-collision-on-the-r23-road-between-heidelberg-and-balfour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/fatal-collision-on-the-r23-road-between-heidelberg-and-balfour\/","title":{"rendered":"Fatal collision on the R23 road between Heidelberg and Balfour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The R23 road between Heidelberg and Balfour is fast becoming known as the &quot;road of death&quot; following yet another fatal accident this morning (November 29).<\/p>\n<p>Three people have lost their lives following the accident which occurred between a heavy motor vehicle and a light motor vehicle around 17 kilometres from Heidelberg.<\/p>\n<p>All services, including Lesedi Fire and Rescue, GPG Medical Services and Lesedi Traffic assisted at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>Our heartfelt condolences to the family and friends of those who have passed on, may they rest in peace.<\/p>\n<p>Motorists are once again urged to take extreme care on our roads ahead of the festive season.<\/p>\n<p>Photo credit: AutoTech<\/p>\n<p>[Heidelberg Times]&#8230;<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/news.aspx?s=1&#038;i=75462&#038;page=fatal-collision-on-the-r23-road-between-heidelberg-and-balfour\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on Arrive Alive <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The R23 road between Heidelberg and Balfour is fast becoming known as the &quot;road of death&quot; following yet another fatal accident this morning (November 29). Three people have lost their lives following the accident which occurred between a heavy motor vehicle and a light motor vehicle around 17 kilometres from Heidelberg. All services, including Lesedi [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":41598,"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\/589948403_1313757680770688_2583030908134305899_n.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2149],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-accidents"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/\/ckfinder\/userfiles\/images\/589948403_1313757680770688_2583030908134305899_n.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41597","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=41597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41597\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}