{"id":41681,"date":"2025-12-02T23:56:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T21:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/serious-multi-vehicle-collision-on-r61-at-southbroom-avenue-leaves-13-injured\/"},"modified":"2025-12-02T23:56:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T21:56:09","slug":"serious-multi-vehicle-collision-on-r61-at-southbroom-avenue-leaves-13-injured","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/serious-multi-vehicle-collision-on-r61-at-southbroom-avenue-leaves-13-injured\/","title":{"rendered":"Serious Multi-Vehicle Collision on R61 at Southbroom Avenue Leaves 13 Injured"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>KwaZulu Private Ambulance Service, responded to a devastating collision involving a fully-laden taxi and a sedan this evening, resulting in a high patient count and a significant road closure on the R61.<br \/>\n?At approximately 18h30, emergency crews were dispatched to the critical intersection of the R61 and Southbroom Avenue.<\/p>\n<p> The incident involved a collision between a light motor vehicle (sedan) and a taxi. Preliminary reports from the scene indicate that following the impact, the taxi, which was transporting passengers home from work, lost control and overturned violently.<\/p>\n<p>?The scene was described by first responders as chaotic, requiring a complex and coordinated emergency response. Paramedics immediately initiated a mass casualty triage procedure due to the high number of injured occupants scattered across the scene.<\/p>\n<p>?A total of 13 patients sustained injuries in the impact, ?one patient from the taxi sustained serious injuries, specifically suspected spinal injuries, necessitating&#8230;<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/news.aspx?s=1&#038;i=75512&#038;page=serious-multi-vehicle-collision-on-r61-at-southbroom-avenue-leaves-13-injured\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on Arrive Alive <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KwaZulu Private Ambulance Service, responded to a devastating collision involving a fully-laden taxi and a sedan this evening, resulting in a high patient count and a significant road closure on the R61. ?At approximately 18h30, emergency crews were dispatched to the critical intersection of the R61 and Southbroom Avenue. The incident involved a collision between [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":41682,"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%202025-12-02%20201604.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2149],"tags":[1888,1327],"class_list":["post-41681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-accidents","tag-taxi","tag-taxi-accident"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/\/ckfinder\/userfiles\/images\/Screenshot%202025-12-02%20201604.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41681","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=41681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41681\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}