{"id":41862,"date":"2025-12-11T18:44:33","date_gmt":"2025-12-11T16:44:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/passenger-killed-in-a-collision-between-a-light-truck-and-a-sedan-on-the-n1-national-road-near-verkeerdevlei\/"},"modified":"2025-12-11T18:44:33","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T16:44:33","slug":"passenger-killed-in-a-collision-between-a-light-truck-and-a-sedan-on-the-n1-national-road-near-verkeerdevlei","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/passenger-killed-in-a-collision-between-a-light-truck-and-a-sedan-on-the-n1-national-road-near-verkeerdevlei\/","title":{"rendered":"Passenger killed in a collision between a light truck and a sedan on the N1 National Road near Verkeerdevlei."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At approximately 07:25 this morning, the police and emergency services were activated to a head-on collision between a light truck and a sedan on the N1 National Road near Verkeerdevlei. <\/p>\n<p>Upon arrival, responders found the two vehicles had collided head-on, resulting in one fatality at the scene. <\/p>\n<p>Three moderately injured individuals were transported to a hospital in Bloemfontein for further treatment.<\/p>\n<p>A case docket of culpable homicide was opened at Verkeerdevlei Police Station.<\/p>\n<p>The report from first responders indicates that the Grey Volkswagen Polo TSI was driving on Southbound lane towards Bloemfontein, whereas the truck was driving towards Winburg on the Northbound lane.<\/p>\n<p>There were four passengers and the driver inside the Volkswagen Polo. The deceased was seated behind the driver with two children. The two kids, together with the passenger who was occupying the front seat, were rushed to the hospital.<\/p>\n<p>Both the driver of the Volkswagen Polo and the truck escaped&#8230;<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/news.aspx?s=1&#038;i=75635&#038;page=passenger-killed-in-a-collision-between-a-light-truck-and-a-sedan-on-the-n1-national-road-near-verkeerdevlei\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on Arrive Alive <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At approximately 07:25 this morning, the police and emergency services were activated to a head-on collision between a light truck and a sedan on the N1 National Road near Verkeerdevlei. Upon arrival, responders found the two vehicles had collided head-on, resulting in one fatality at the scene. Three moderately injured individuals were transported to a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":41863,"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\/wall_image(1).jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2149],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-accidents"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/\/ckfinder\/userfiles\/images\/wall_image(1).jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41862","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=41862"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41862\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}