{"id":42021,"date":"2025-12-17T13:16:28","date_gmt":"2025-12-17T11:16:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/vehicle-fire-caused-by-mechanical-fault-ottawa-kzn\/"},"modified":"2025-12-17T13:16:28","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T11:16:28","slug":"vehicle-fire-caused-by-mechanical-fault-ottawa-kzn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/vehicle-fire-caused-by-mechanical-fault-ottawa-kzn\/","title":{"rendered":"Vehicle Fire Caused by Mechanical Fault: Ottawa \u2013 KZN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A vehicle was destroyed in a fire on Old Main Road in Ottawa &#8211; KwaZulu-Natal today (Wednesday), following a mechanical fault.<\/p>\n<p>Reaction Unit South Africa (RUSA) Operations Centre received a call from members of the public reporting that a car was on fire. Reaction Officers were dispatched and, on arrival, found a red Renault Triber fully ablaze.<\/p>\n<p>The driver informed Officers that he was en route to a mechanic when the vehicle caught fire. He managed to stop the car safely, exit it, and seek assistance from passing motorists.<\/p>\n<p>Metro Police arrived on scene and cordoned off the area to ensure public safety. The Fire Department responded shortly thereafter and extinguished the blaze. No injuries were reported. <\/p>\n<p>According to the vehicle owner, the fire is believed to have been caused by an electrical fault&#8230;.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/news.aspx?s=1&#038;i=75738&#038;page=vehicle-fire-caused-by-mechanical-fault-ottawa-kzn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on Arrive Alive <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A vehicle was destroyed in a fire on Old Main Road in Ottawa &#8211; KwaZulu-Natal today (Wednesday), following a mechanical fault. Reaction Unit South Africa (RUSA) Operations Centre received a call from members of the public reporting that a car was on fire. Reaction Officers were dispatched and, on arrival, found a red Renault Triber [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":42022,"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\/597391670_1300451365441953_283381803927017170_n.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2149],"tags":[66,2152],"class_list":["post-42021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-accidents","tag-kwazulu-natal","tag-kzn"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/\/ckfinder\/userfiles\/images\/597391670_1300451365441953_283381803927017170_n.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42021","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=42021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42021\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}