{"id":43778,"date":"2026-02-08T13:34:50","date_gmt":"2026-02-08T11:34:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/five-killed-in-a-head-on-collision-on-the-n1-approximately-40km-south-of-bloemfontein-in-the-tierpoort-area\/"},"modified":"2026-02-08T13:34:50","modified_gmt":"2026-02-08T11:34:50","slug":"five-killed-in-a-head-on-collision-on-the-n1-approximately-40km-south-of-bloemfontein-in-the-tierpoort-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/five-killed-in-a-head-on-collision-on-the-n1-approximately-40km-south-of-bloemfontein-in-the-tierpoort-area\/","title":{"rendered":"Five killed in a head-on collision on the N1 approximately 40km south of Bloemfontein in the Tierpoort area."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Priority-Care Ambulance Service and various other services, including Mangaung Fire and Rescue, were dispatched late Saturday night to reports of a head-on collision on the N1 approximately 40km south of Bloemfontein in the Tierpoort area.<\/p>\n<p>Upon arrival shortly after 23:00, Priority-care paramedics found that the occupants of both vehicles had sustained fatal injuries after colliding head-on. The 5 occupants from both vehicles were pronounced deceased on scene. <\/p>\n<p>The exact cause of the accident is subject to police investigation. <\/p>\n<p>#ArriveAlive&#8230;<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/news.aspx?s=1&#038;i=76389&#038;page=five-killed-in-a-head-on-collision-on-the-n1-approximately-40km-south-of-bloemfontein-in-the-tierpoort-area\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on Arrive Alive <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Priority-Care Ambulance Service and various other services, including Mangaung Fire and Rescue, were dispatched late Saturday night to reports of a head-on collision on the N1 approximately 40km south of Bloemfontein in the Tierpoort area. Upon arrival shortly after 23:00, Priority-care paramedics found that the occupants of both vehicles had sustained fatal injuries after colliding [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":43779,"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\/630915025_122160163052838639_817261266671787453_n.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2149],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-accidents"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/\/ckfinder\/userfiles\/images\/630915025_122160163052838639_817261266671787453_n.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43778","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=43778"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43778\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}