{"id":43374,"date":"2026-01-23T12:18:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T10:18:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/collision-into-a-trailer-near-de-rust\/"},"modified":"2026-01-23T12:18:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T10:18:10","slug":"collision-into-a-trailer-near-de-rust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/collision-into-a-trailer-near-de-rust\/","title":{"rendered":"Collision into a trailer near De Rust"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An accident occurred some time ago, 6km outside De Rust.<\/p>\n<p>A Ford Everest from Kimberley&#039;s trailer came loose, and the vehicle collided with an oncoming bakkie.<\/p>\n<p>No one was seriously injured, and provincial traffic is on the scene.<\/p>\n<p>Video: Louise Mouton<\/p>\n<p>Oudtshoorn Courant <\/p>\n<p>Collision into a trailer near De Rusthttps:\/\/t.co\/g3Tuaei76F#ArriveAlive #Trailer @OudtshoornC pic.twitter.com\/3WLKRr6Rwp<br \/>\n&mdash; Arrive Alive (@_ArriveAlive) January 23, 2026<\/p>\n<p>Towing a Trailer Safely &#8211; &quot;It is best to distribute 60 % of the load over the front half of the trailer (nearest to the towing vehicle)&quot; https:\/\/t.co\/t0YC5jf2ga #ArriveAlive #Trailer #Towing pic.twitter.com\/pZTk7sjOPE&mdash; Arrive Alive (@_ArriveAlive) January 23, 2026&#8230;<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/news.aspx?s=1&#038;i=76207&#038;page=collision-into-a-trailer-near-de-rust\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on Arrive Alive <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An accident occurred some time ago, 6km outside De Rust. A Ford Everest from Kimberley&#039;s trailer came loose, and the vehicle collided with an oncoming bakkie. No one was seriously injured, and provincial traffic is on the scene. Video: Louise Mouton Oudtshoorn Courant Collision into a trailer near De Rusthttps:\/\/t.co\/g3Tuaei76F#ArriveAlive #Trailer @OudtshoornC pic.twitter.com\/3WLKRr6Rwp &mdash; Arrive [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":43375,"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%202026-01-23%20110720.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2149],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-accidents"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/\/ckfinder\/userfiles\/images\/Screenshot%202026-01-23%20110720.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43374","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=43374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43374\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}