{"id":41874,"date":"2025-12-12T12:48:37","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T10:48:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/for-many-this-holiday-will-be-their-last-road-trip\/"},"modified":"2025-12-12T12:48:37","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T10:48:37","slug":"for-many-this-holiday-will-be-their-last-road-trip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/for-many-this-holiday-will-be-their-last-road-trip\/","title":{"rendered":"For many, this holiday will be their last road trip"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s that time of year again – the time when thousands of cars, taxis, buses and trucks will be sharing the roads. Every one of those vehicles will be carrying the most precious cargo imaginable: moms, dads, children, grandchildren, aunts, uncles and loved ones heading to and from their holiday destinations. And then we have the trucks – those unsung heroes of the economy – driven by equally precious moms and dads who’ll be doing their usual job of keeping the wheels of the economy moving but with one major difference: this time they’ll be surrounded by hundreds of “dinky toys” weaving in-between them.<\/p>\n

Our plea to truck drivers is simple: please take extra care around these little ’uns. You’re going to see some shocking driving out there. Drivers who don’t even know your legal speed limit is 80 km\/h will get frustrated, hoot at you, flash lights at you, even curse you for “going too slowly”. Then, in their ignorance, some will…<\/p>\n

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It’s that time of year again – the time when thousands of cars, taxis, buses and trucks will be sharing the roads. Every one of those vehicles will be carrying the most precious cargo imaginable: moms, dads, children, grandchildren, aunts, uncles and loved ones heading to and from their holiday destinations. And then we have […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":41875,"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\/571799673_1117892040504109_3575373394524683213_n.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2149],"tags":[1327,2168],"class_list":["post-41874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-accidents","tag-taxi-accident","tag-taxis"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/\/ckfinder\/userfiles\/images\/571799673_1117892040504109_3575373394524683213_n.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41874","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=41874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41874\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}