{"id":42202,"date":"2025-12-21T07:34:52","date_gmt":"2025-12-21T05:34:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/rtmc-warns-motorists-to-reduce-speed\/"},"modified":"2025-12-21T07:34:52","modified_gmt":"2025-12-21T05:34:52","slug":"rtmc-warns-motorists-to-reduce-speed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/rtmc-warns-motorists-to-reduce-speed\/","title":{"rendered":"RTMC warns motorists to reduce speed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Road Traffic Management Corporation calls on festive season travellers to reduce high speed and respect all road regulations.<\/p>\n<p>An unacceptably high number of head-on collisions involving speed and reckless driving have been recorded since the start of the festive season. Eleven people (11) have died in the latest head-on collisions that occurred in Kwa-Zulu Natal and Free State respectively.<\/p>\n<p>The KwaZulu Natal occurred in Kwa Mbonambi on Friday, December 19 and it is alleged that a driver of a light delivery vehicle was overtaking and went onto the path of an oncoming vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>The driver of the oncoming vehicle tried to avoid the light delivery vehicle but lost control and overturned. The LDV went on to have a head-on crash with another vehicle resulting in five people killed, eight with serious injuries and six with light injuries.<\/p>\n<p>In the Free State crash that took place today Saturday 20 December, five people died and three were injured when two vehicles collided head-on&#8230;<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/news.aspx?s=1&#038;i=75804&#038;page=rtmc-warns-motorists-to-reduce-speed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on Arrive Alive <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Road Traffic Management Corporation calls on festive season travellers to reduce high speed and respect all road regulations. An unacceptably high number of head-on collisions involving speed and reckless driving have been recorded since the start of the festive season. Eleven people (11) have died in the latest head-on collisions that occurred in Kwa-Zulu [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":42203,"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\/603081573_1403183828509395_1246531295754390277_n.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2149],"tags":[852,66],"class_list":["post-42202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-accidents","tag-free-state","tag-kwazulu-natal"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/\/ckfinder\/userfiles\/images\/603081573_1403183828509395_1246531295754390277_n.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42202","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=42202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42202\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}