{"id":42829,"date":"2026-01-08T16:58:31","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T14:58:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/motorists-are-urged-to-exercise-extreme-caution-on-the-n3-freeway-durban-to-pietermaritzburg-bound\/"},"modified":"2026-01-08T16:58:31","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T14:58:31","slug":"motorists-are-urged-to-exercise-extreme-caution-on-the-n3-freeway-durban-to-pietermaritzburg-bound","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/motorists-are-urged-to-exercise-extreme-caution-on-the-n3-freeway-durban-to-pietermaritzburg-bound\/","title":{"rendered":"Motorists are urged to exercise extreme caution on the N3 freeway Durban to Pietermaritzburg bound."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the Cato ridge area near the garages there is a very large herd of cattle gathered on the side of the road. The animals have begun moving onto the freeway and are currently walking in a contraflow direction on the N3 westbound lanes while heading back towards Durban.<\/p>\n<p>This poses an immediate and serious hazard to motorists and there is a high risk of a major accident if vehicles do not slow down.<\/p>\n<p>Drivers are advised to reduce speed immediately remain alert and be prepared to stop at short notice.<\/p>\n<p>Urgent assistance is required to attend the scene and safely herd the cattle away from the roadway.<\/p>\n<p>Please share this alert to help prevent a serious incident&#8230;<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/news.aspx?s=1&#038;i=76054&#038;page=motorists-are-urged-to-exercise-extreme-caution-on-the-n3-freeway-durban-to-pietermaritzburg-bound\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on Arrive Alive <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the Cato ridge area near the garages there is a very large herd of cattle gathered on the side of the road. The animals have begun moving onto the freeway and are currently walking in a contraflow direction on the N3 westbound lanes while heading back towards Durban. This poses an immediate and serious [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":42830,"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\/b97d18d04ee7461792a6d179a1a4c39f.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2149],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-accidents"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/\/ckfinder\/userfiles\/images\/b97d18d04ee7461792a6d179a1a4c39f.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42829","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=42829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42829\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}