{"id":43035,"date":"2026-01-15T11:36:15","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T09:36:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/tragic-head-on-collision-between-fully-laden-truck-and-bakkie-claims-two-lives-on-r617-landies-hill-howick\/"},"modified":"2026-01-15T11:36:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T09:36:15","slug":"tragic-head-on-collision-between-fully-laden-truck-and-bakkie-claims-two-lives-on-r617-landies-hill-howick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/tragic-head-on-collision-between-fully-laden-truck-and-bakkie-claims-two-lives-on-r617-landies-hill-howick\/","title":{"rendered":"Tragic Head-On Collision Between Fully Laden Truck and Bakkie Claims Two Lives on R617 Landies Hill, HOWICK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this morning, at approximately 9:00 AM, KwaZulu Private Ambulance Service was dispatched to a motor vehicle collision on the R617 at Landies Hill in the Howick area.<\/p>\n<p>Upon arrival, paramedics were met with a scene of absolute devastation. A heavy-duty truck, reportedly fully laden with molasses, had been traveling down the steep descent of Landies Hill when it allegedly suffered a catastrophic mechanical failure of its braking system. The out-of-control heavy vehicle careened into a single-cab bakkie in a violent head-on collision, causing both vehicles to overturn and leave a trail of wreckage and molasses across the roadway.<\/p>\n<p>Paramedics immediately began a rapid triage of the scene. They discovered two occupants within the bakkie who had sustained serious injuries. Both patients were stabilized on-scene using advanced life support interventions before being rushed to a nearby hospital for urgent specialized care.<\/p>\n<p>Tragically, the impact proved fatal for two individuals&#8230;.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/news.aspx?s=1&#038;i=76139&#038;page=tragic-head-on-collision-between-fully-laden-truck-and-bakkie-claims-two-lives-on-r617-landies-hill-howick\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on Arrive Alive <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this morning, at approximately 9:00 AM, KwaZulu Private Ambulance Service was dispatched to a motor vehicle collision on the R617 at Landies Hill in the Howick area. Upon arrival, paramedics were met with a scene of absolute devastation. A heavy-duty truck, reportedly fully laden with molasses, had been traveling down the steep descent of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":43036,"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\/Screenshot%202026-01-15%20111215.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2149],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-accidents"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/\/ckfinder\/userfiles\/images\/Screenshot%202026-01-15%20111215.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43035","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=43035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43035\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}