{"id":43905,"date":"2026-02-14T14:13:15","date_gmt":"2026-02-14T12:13:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/one-deceased-one-seriously-injured-after-high-speed-crash-n2-shakas-head\/"},"modified":"2026-02-14T14:13:15","modified_gmt":"2026-02-14T12:13:15","slug":"one-deceased-one-seriously-injured-after-high-speed-crash-n2-shakas-head","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/one-deceased-one-seriously-injured-after-high-speed-crash-n2-shakas-head\/","title":{"rendered":"One deceased, one seriously injured after high speed crash &#8211; N2 Shakas Head"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just after midnight IPSS Medical Rescue received reports of a motor vehicle accident on the N2 near Shakas Head.<\/p>\n<p>On arrival of paramedics it was established that two vehicles traveling in the same direction had collided, resulting in both vehicles veering off the road.<\/p>\n<p>Sadly, the driver of one vehicle was found to have sustained fatal injuries and was declared deceased on scene. The driver of the second vehicle was found to have serious injuries and was stabilised on scene by an IPSS Medical Rescue Advanced Life Support paramedic before being transported to hospital for further care.<\/p>\n<p>Our sincere condolences to the friends and family of the deceased&#8230;.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/news.aspx?s=1&#038;i=76456&#038;page=one-deceased-one-seriously-injured-after-high-speed-crash-n2-shakas-head\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on Arrive Alive <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just after midnight IPSS Medical Rescue received reports of a motor vehicle accident on the N2 near Shakas Head. On arrival of paramedics it was established that two vehicles traveling in the same direction had collided, resulting in both vehicles veering off the road. Sadly, the driver of one vehicle was found to have sustained [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":43906,"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\/634041202_907864288270272_7836216561703642027_n.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2149],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-accidents"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/\/ckfinder\/userfiles\/images\/634041202_907864288270272_7836216561703642027_n.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43905","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=43905"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43905\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}