{"id":43865,"date":"2026-02-12T01:55:45","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T23:55:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/vehicle-crashes-over-bridge-hazelmere-kzn\/"},"modified":"2026-02-12T01:55:45","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T23:55:45","slug":"vehicle-crashes-over-bridge-hazelmere-kzn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/vehicle-crashes-over-bridge-hazelmere-kzn\/","title":{"rendered":"Vehicle Crashes Over Bridge: Hazelmere &#8211; KZN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 32-year-old man sustained minor injuries after his vehicle crashed over a bridge and landed in a river in Hazelmere &ndash; KZN today (Wednesday).<\/p>\n<p>Members of Reaction Unit South Africa (RUSA) were called out to New Glasgow Road at approximately 12:16. Reaction Officers arrived on scene and found a white Ford EcoSport in the river below the bridge.<\/p>\n<p>The driver informed Officers that he was travelling from Hazelmere towards Canelands &ndash; KZN when he lost control while crossing the bridge. The vehicle veered off the bridge and landed in the river below.<\/p>\n<p>The driver received First Aid on scene.<\/p>\n<p>Vehicle Crashes Over Bridge: Hazelmere &#8211; KZNhttps:\/\/t.co\/MeHl9gtMlv#ArriveAlive #RoadSafety pic.twitter.com\/bUa9rMCw90&mdash; Arrive Alive (@_ArriveAlive) February 11, 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=76439&#038;page=vehicle-crashes-over-bridge-hazelmere-kzn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on Arrive Alive <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 32-year-old man sustained minor injuries after his vehicle crashed over a bridge and landed in a river in Hazelmere &ndash; KZN today (Wednesday). Members of Reaction Unit South Africa (RUSA) were called out to New Glasgow Road at approximately 12:16. Reaction Officers arrived on scene and found a white Ford EcoSport in the river [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":43866,"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\/629666890_1345487940938295_1042716321175687754_n.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2149],"tags":[66,2152],"class_list":["post-43865","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\/629666890_1345487940938295_1042716321175687754_n.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43865","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=43865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43865\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}