{"id":41982,"date":"2025-12-16T19:13:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T17:13:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/three-dead-multiple-injured-in-separate-road-crashes-across-kwazulu-natal\/"},"modified":"2025-12-16T19:13:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T17:13:10","slug":"three-dead-multiple-injured-in-separate-road-crashes-across-kwazulu-natal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/three-dead-multiple-injured-in-separate-road-crashes-across-kwazulu-natal\/","title":{"rendered":"Three Dead, Multiple Injured in Separate Road Crashes Across KwaZulu-Natal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>IPSS Medical Rescue responded to multiple motor vehicle accidents across KwaZulu-Natal today, resulting in several fatalities and injuries.<\/p>\n<p>One severe collision occurred on the N3 near Frere, involving a light motor vehicle and a truck. Tragically, three occupants sustained fatal injuries. One additional patient was critically injured and was stabilised on scene by an IPSS Medical Rescue Advanced Life Support paramedic before being transported to a nearby hospital for further medical care.<\/p>\n<p>In separate incidents, two further multi-vehicle accidents occurred along the KwaZulu-Natal South Coast and North Coast. These incidents resulted in multiple patients sustaining injuries ranging from minor to serious. All patients received appropriate on-scene medical care and were transported to hospital where required.<\/p>\n<p>IPSS Medical Rescue urges all road users to remain vigilant, adhere to traffic laws, and exercise extreme caution on the roads, particularly during the festive season when traffic&#8230;<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/news.aspx?s=1&#038;i=75727&#038;page=three-dead-multiple-injured-in-separate-road-crashes-across-kwazulu-natal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on Arrive Alive <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IPSS Medical Rescue responded to multiple motor vehicle accidents across KwaZulu-Natal today, resulting in several fatalities and injuries. One severe collision occurred on the N3 near Frere, involving a light motor vehicle and a truck. Tragically, three occupants sustained fatal injuries. One additional patient was critically injured and was stabilised on scene by an IPSS [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":41983,"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\/600278354_863299912726710_2725690764087152874_n.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2149],"tags":[66],"class_list":["post-41982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-accidents","tag-kwazulu-natal"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/\/ckfinder\/userfiles\/images\/600278354_863299912726710_2725690764087152874_n.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41982","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=41982"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41982\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}