{"id":42664,"date":"2026-01-04T16:36:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T14:36:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/road-crash-claims-six-lives-on-r26-outside-mashaeng-fouriesburg\/"},"modified":"2026-01-04T16:36:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T14:36:13","slug":"road-crash-claims-six-lives-on-r26-outside-mashaeng-fouriesburg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/road-crash-claims-six-lives-on-r26-outside-mashaeng-fouriesburg\/","title":{"rendered":"Road crash claims six lives on R26 outside Mashaeng, Fouriesburg"},"content":{"rendered":"

At least six people lost their lives in a tragic road accident last night following a T-bone collision between a sedan and a 22-seater minibus taxi on the R26 outside Mashaeng near Fouriesburg.<\/p>\n

The accident occurred on Saturday, 3 January 2026, at approximately 23:50. It is alleged that a white Kia sedan with Free State registration was travelling from Mashaeng location towards Fouriesburg when the 21-year-old driver failed to stop at an intersection and collided with a white Mercedes-Benz 22-seater minibus taxi with Gauteng registration, travelling from Ficksburg to Pretoria.<\/p>\n

Emergency services and law enforcement officials worked throughout the night to manage the scene and provide assistance to the injured.<\/p>\n

The sedan had five occupants. Three people died at the scene, while two sustained serious injuries and were transported to hospital.<\/p>\n

The minibus taxi was carrying 22 occupants, including the driver. The driver and two passengers died at the scene. The remaining 19 occupants…<\/p>\n

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At least six people lost their lives in a tragic road accident last night following a T-bone collision between a sedan and a 22-seater minibus taxi on the R26 outside Mashaeng near Fouriesburg. The accident occurred on Saturday, 3 January 2026, at approximately 23:50. It is alleged that a white Kia sedan with Free State […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":42665,"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\/wall_image(1).jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2149],"tags":[852,164,1888,1327],"class_list":["post-42664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-accidents","tag-free-state","tag-gauteng","tag-taxi","tag-taxi-accident"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/\/ckfinder\/userfiles\/images\/wall_image(1).jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42664","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=42664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42664\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}