{"id":42866,"date":"2026-01-09T23:04:02","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T21:04:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/multi-vehicle-collision-involving-a-taxi-on-simon-vermoten-road-in-the-meyerspark-area-of-pretoria-east\/"},"modified":"2026-01-09T23:04:02","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T21:04:02","slug":"multi-vehicle-collision-involving-a-taxi-on-simon-vermoten-road-in-the-meyerspark-area-of-pretoria-east","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/multi-vehicle-collision-involving-a-taxi-on-simon-vermoten-road-in-the-meyerspark-area-of-pretoria-east\/","title":{"rendered":"Multi-vehicle collision involving a Taxi on Simon Vermoten road in the Meyerspark area of Pretoria East."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just after 11:00, the Volunteer Emergency Medical Response Unit received a call for a multi-vehicle accident involving a Taxi on Simon Vermoten Road in the Meyerspark area of Pretoria East. On arrival, we found that 3 patients sustained injuries ranging from minor to serious after 2 bakkies and a taxi collided, causing the one bakkie to overturn. All 3 patients were stabilised on scene before being transported to nearby hospitals for further treatment. <\/p>\n<p>Thank you to Pretoria Volunteer Emergency Services  , Live Traffic NPC  , Gauteng Emergency Medical Services and SAPS for assisting with the scene.<\/p>\n<p>Volunteer Emergency Medical Response Unit (VEMRU) is a registered NPC and PBO that responds to medical and trauma emergencies for FREE.<\/p>\n<p>VEMRU is solely reliant on sponsors and donations for operational costs.<\/p>\n<p>Please consider supporting this life saving cause.<\/p>\n<p>Sponsorship opportunities and Section 18a Tax certificates for businesses and individuals available.<\/p>\n<p>#VEMRU #volunteer&#8230;<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/news.aspx?s=1&#038;i=76069&#038;page=multi-vehicle-collision-involving-a-taxi-on-simon-vermoten-road-in-the-meyerspark-area-of-pretoria-east\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on Arrive Alive <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just after 11:00, the Volunteer Emergency Medical Response Unit received a call for a multi-vehicle accident involving a Taxi on Simon Vermoten Road in the Meyerspark area of Pretoria East. On arrival, we found that 3 patients sustained injuries ranging from minor to serious after 2 bakkies and a taxi collided, causing the one bakkie [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":42867,"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\/613412617_1174023814905060_8751829955914916049_n.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2149],"tags":[164,1888,1327],"class_list":["post-42866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-accidents","tag-gauteng","tag-taxi","tag-taxi-accident"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/\/ckfinder\/userfiles\/images\/613412617_1174023814905060_8751829955914916049_n.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42866","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=42866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42866\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}