{"id":42742,"date":"2026-01-06T16:49:35","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T14:49:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/two-pedestrians-run-over-minutes-apart-tongaat-kzn\/"},"modified":"2026-01-06T16:49:35","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T14:49:35","slug":"two-pedestrians-run-over-minutes-apart-tongaat-kzn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/two-pedestrians-run-over-minutes-apart-tongaat-kzn\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Pedestrians Run Over Minutes Apart: Tongaat \u2013 KZN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two (2) pedestrians were struck by vehicles within minutes of each other on Gopalall Hurbans Road in the Tongaat CBD &#8211; KZN today (Tuesday). <\/p>\n<p>In the first incident (picture 1), a 66-year-old female was crossing the roadway when she was knocked by a blue Opel Corsa bakkie. The pedestrian suffered a serious injury to her left ankle, which twisted on impact, resulting in a dislocation.<\/p>\n<p>While members of Reaction Unit South Africa (RUSA) were attending to the first pedestrian vehicle accident, a second accident occurred after a 38-year-old male reportedly fled across the road when he was struck by a grey Tata Indicar (picture 2). He sustained injuries after his head made contact with the vehicle&rsquo;s windscreen. The injured man was transported privately to a medical facility for further treatment.<\/p>\n<p>The drivers of both vehicles were not injured&#8230;.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/news.aspx?s=1&#038;i=76030&#038;page=two-pedestrians-run-over-minutes-apart-tongaat-kzn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on Arrive Alive <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two (2) pedestrians were struck by vehicles within minutes of each other on Gopalall Hurbans Road in the Tongaat CBD &#8211; KZN today (Tuesday). In the first incident (picture 1), a 66-year-old female was crossing the roadway when she was knocked by a blue Opel Corsa bakkie. The pedestrian suffered a serious injury to her [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":42743,"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\/607928444_1315577840595972_5748024554986023986_n.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2149],"tags":[66,2152],"class_list":["post-42742","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\/607928444_1315577840595972_5748024554986023986_n.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42742","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=42742"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42742\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}