{"id":41613,"date":"2025-11-30T05:41:16","date_gmt":"2025-11-30T03:41:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/brake-failure-blamed-for-collision-on-ireland-street-in-the-verulam-cbd\/"},"modified":"2025-11-30T05:41:16","modified_gmt":"2025-11-30T03:41:16","slug":"brake-failure-blamed-for-collision-on-ireland-street-in-the-verulam-cbd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/brake-failure-blamed-for-collision-on-ireland-street-in-the-verulam-cbd\/","title":{"rendered":"Brake failure blamed for collision on Ireland Street in the Verulam CBD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A white Toyota Quantum struck a pedestrian after it experienced brake failure while travelling downhill on Ireland Street in the Verulam CBD &ndash; KZN today (Saturday). <\/p>\n<p>The driver, who was the only occupant in the vehicle, lost control and struck a pedestrian before colliding into a stationary white Toyota Quantum taxi.<\/p>\n<p>Members of Reaction Unit South Africa (RUSA) were dispatched to the scene and found the injured pedestrian on the pavement. Paramedics from a private ambulance service attended to the injured male, who sustained moderate injuries. <\/p>\n<p>No other injuries were reported&#8230;.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/news.aspx?s=1&#038;i=75471&#038;page=brake-failure-blamed-for-collision-on-ireland-street-in-the-verulam-cbd\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on Arrive Alive <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A white Toyota Quantum struck a pedestrian after it experienced brake failure while travelling downhill on Ireland Street in the Verulam CBD &ndash; KZN today (Saturday). The driver, who was the only occupant in the vehicle, lost control and struck a pedestrian before colliding into a stationary white Toyota Quantum taxi. Members of Reaction Unit [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":41614,"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\/589736503_1287213206765769_6290715581769078578_n.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2149],"tags":[66,2152,1888,1327],"class_list":["post-41613","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\/589736503_1287213206765769_6290715581769078578_n.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41613","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=41613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41613\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}