{"id":43527,"date":"2026-01-29T12:43:41","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T10:43:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/11-people-have-perished-in-an-accident-involving-a-truck-and-a-minibus-taxi-in-isiphingo\/"},"modified":"2026-01-29T12:43:41","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T10:43:41","slug":"11-people-have-perished-in-an-accident-involving-a-truck-and-a-minibus-taxi-in-isiphingo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/11-people-have-perished-in-an-accident-involving-a-truck-and-a-minibus-taxi-in-isiphingo\/","title":{"rendered":"11 people have perished in an accident involving a truck and a minibus taxi in Isiphingo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>11 people have perished in an accident involving a truck and a minibus taxi in Isiphingo: Duma is rushing to the scene of the accident from Pietemaritzburg<\/p>\n<p>Media and Public Statement by the MEC for Transport and Human Settlements Siboniso Duma<\/p>\n<p>M35, Isiphingo: I  am currently making my way to the scene of a horrific accident involving a truck and a minibus taxi in Lotus Park, Isiphingo.<\/p>\n<p>According to a preliminary report from our dedicated team from Road Traffic Inspectorate, unfortunately 11 people, including a learner, have died in this horrific accident.<\/p>\n<p>Six other people were seriously injured and have been taken to the nearest hospital.<\/p>\n<p>This accident has occured after we recorded a historic 18% decrease in fatalities during the festive season.<\/p>\n<p>We wish to extend our deepest condolences to the families of the victims. <\/p>\n<p>I have assigned a team from my office to locate the families of the victims. We will do everything in our power to ensure that they receive the necessary&#8230;<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/news.aspx?s=1&#038;i=76279&#038;page=11-people-have-perished-in-an-accident-involving-a-truck-and-a-minibus-taxi-in-isiphingo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on Arrive Alive <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>11 people have perished in an accident involving a truck and a minibus taxi in Isiphingo: Duma is rushing to the scene of the accident from Pietemaritzburg Media and Public Statement by the MEC for Transport and Human Settlements Siboniso Duma M35, Isiphingo: I am currently making my way to the scene of a horrific [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":43528,"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\/624380796_1370388295127076_8778441587939820536_n.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2149],"tags":[1888,1327],"class_list":["post-43527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-accidents","tag-taxi","tag-taxi-accident"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/\/ckfinder\/userfiles\/images\/624380796_1370388295127076_8778441587939820536_n.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43527","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=43527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43527\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}