{"id":41905,"date":"2025-12-13T18:56:22","date_gmt":"2025-12-13T16:56:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/twelve-people-die-in-two-horror-head-on-crashes\/"},"modified":"2025-12-13T18:56:22","modified_gmt":"2025-12-13T16:56:22","slug":"twelve-people-die-in-two-horror-head-on-crashes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/twelve-people-die-in-two-horror-head-on-crashes\/","title":{"rendered":"Twelve People Die In Two Horror Head-On Crashes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Centurion: The Road Traffic Management Corporation reiterates a call for motorists to exercise caution on the roads this festive season. <\/p>\n<p>This comes as twelve people have died in two horror crashes today (13 December 2025). <\/p>\n<p>Seven people including a baby died when an SUV and light delivery vehicle collided head-on on the N12 between Kimberly and Warrenton in the Northern Cape. Both vehicles caught alight totally burned. <\/p>\n<p>Five other people died on the N12 in Fochville, Gauteng when two vehicles were also involved in a head on collision. Three people died on the scene while two others died later in hospital.<\/p>\n<p>The #RTMC crash investigation unit is working with the police to probe factors that may have contributed to these fatal crashes. <\/p>\n<p>Motorists are further advised to take regular rest stops when travelling on long distance trips. They must also reduce speed and avoid driving under the influence of alcohol.<\/p>\n<p>Twelve People Die In Two Horror Crasheshttps:\/\/t.co\/nOsIw8WSXw#ArriveAlive&#8230;<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/news.aspx?s=1&#038;i=75671&#038;page=twelve-people-die-in-two-horror-head-on-crashes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on Arrive Alive <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Centurion: The Road Traffic Management Corporation reiterates a call for motorists to exercise caution on the roads this festive season. This comes as twelve people have died in two horror crashes today (13 December 2025). Seven people including a baby died when an SUV and light delivery vehicle collided head-on on the N12 between Kimberly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":41906,"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\/5%20best%20road%20safety%20tips(5).jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2149],"tags":[164,2371],"class_list":["post-41905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-accidents","tag-gauteng","tag-northern-cape"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/\/ckfinder\/userfiles\/images\/5%20best%20road%20safety%20tips(5).jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41905","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=41905"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41905\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}