{"id":43491,"date":"2026-01-27T06:34:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T04:34:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/driver-injured-after-vehicle-overturns-r102-canelands-kzn\/"},"modified":"2026-01-27T06:34:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T04:34:10","slug":"driver-injured-after-vehicle-overturns-r102-canelands-kzn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/driver-injured-after-vehicle-overturns-r102-canelands-kzn\/","title":{"rendered":"Driver Injured After Vehicle Overturns: R102 Canelands \u2013 KZN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A motor vehicle accident was reported on the R102 near Canelands in KwaZulu-Natal this evening (Monday). <\/p>\n<p>At approximately 18:55, Reaction Unit South Africa (RUSA) received a call from a concerned member of the public reporting that a vehicle had overturned along the route. Reaction Officers were immediately dispatched to the scene.<\/p>\n<p>Upon arrival, Officers found a silver Nissan Almera overturned on its roof and facing the opposite direction of travel. The driver, a 45-year-old man, informed First Responders that he had been travelling from his workplace in Tongaat &#8211; KZN to his residence in Phoenix &#8211; KZN when he lost control of the vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>The vehicle overturned several times before coming to rest. He sustained injuries to his abdomen, back, and hands as a result of the crash.<\/p>\n<p>Paramedics from a private ambulance service stabilised the injured driver at the scene before transporting him to hospital for further medical treatment&#8230;.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/news.aspx?s=1&#038;i=76245&#038;page=driver-injured-after-vehicle-overturns-r102-canelands-kzn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on Arrive Alive <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A motor vehicle accident was reported on the R102 near Canelands in KwaZulu-Natal this evening (Monday). At approximately 18:55, Reaction Unit South Africa (RUSA) received a call from a concerned member of the public reporting that a vehicle had overturned along the route. Reaction Officers were immediately dispatched to the scene. Upon arrival, Officers found [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":43492,"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\/622875993_1331766138977142_586960205965697019_n.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2149],"tags":[66,2152],"class_list":["post-43491","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\/622875993_1331766138977142_586960205965697019_n.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43491","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=43491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43491\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}