{"id":42390,"date":"2025-12-26T08:04:45","date_gmt":"2025-12-26T06:04:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/fatal-head-on-crash-in-limpopo-reportedly-caused-by-truck-overtaking-on-barrier-line\/"},"modified":"2025-12-26T08:04:45","modified_gmt":"2025-12-26T06:04:45","slug":"fatal-head-on-crash-in-limpopo-reportedly-caused-by-truck-overtaking-on-barrier-line","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/fatal-head-on-crash-in-limpopo-reportedly-caused-by-truck-overtaking-on-barrier-line\/","title":{"rendered":"Fatal head-on crash in Limpopo reportedly caused by truck overtaking on barrier line"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Department of Transport and Community Safety would like to clarify reports regarding the accident on N1 near Musekene. On 25 December 2025, at approximately 08h30, a collision occurred between an Isuzu Heavy Motor Vehicle (HMV) and a bus on the N1-29, between Masekwa Bricks and Masekena Garage in Vhembe district.<\/p>\n<p>The HMV driver overtook on a barrier line, colliding head-on with the bus. The accident resulted in 2 male drivers (from the bus and HMV) deceased, 2 passengers from the bus seriously injured, and 4 passengers from the bus critically injured.<\/p>\n<p>The probable cause of the accident is reckless and negligent driving.<\/p>\n<p>Limpopo Department of Transport and Community Safety&#8230;<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/news.aspx?s=1&#038;i=75888&#038;page=fatal-head-on-crash-in-limpopo-reportedly-caused-by-truck-overtaking-on-barrier-line\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on Arrive Alive <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Department of Transport and Community Safety would like to clarify reports regarding the accident on N1 near Musekene. On 25 December 2025, at approximately 08h30, a collision occurred between an Isuzu Heavy Motor Vehicle (HMV) and a bus on the N1-29, between Masekwa Bricks and Masekena Garage in Vhembe district. The HMV driver overtook [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":42391,"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\/606502608_1365113858989720_7114700190330830425_n.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2149],"tags":[2150,2151,339],"class_list":["post-42390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-accidents","tag-bus","tag-bus-accident","tag-limpopo"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/\/ckfinder\/userfiles\/images\/606502608_1365113858989720_7114700190330830425_n.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42390","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=42390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42390\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}