{"id":44141,"date":"2026-02-22T20:54:25","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T18:54:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/vehicle-strikes-pedestrian-before-crashing-into-ditch-waterloo-kzn\/"},"modified":"2026-02-22T20:54:25","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T18:54:25","slug":"vehicle-strikes-pedestrian-before-crashing-into-ditch-waterloo-kzn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/vehicle-strikes-pedestrian-before-crashing-into-ditch-waterloo-kzn\/","title":{"rendered":"Vehicle Strikes Pedestrian Before Crashing Into Ditch: Waterloo \u2013 KZN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A pedestrian sustained minor injuries after a vehicle struck him before crashing into a roadside ditch on the M27 near Waterloo, KwaZulu-Natal today (Saturday). <\/p>\n<p>Members of Reaction Unit South Africa (RUSA) responded to the scene after being alerted by a passerby who witnessed the incident. <\/p>\n<p>Upon arrival, Reaction Officers found Tow Truck Operators recovering a grey Omoda from a construction trench adjacent to the roadway.<\/p>\n<p>According to the driver, he failed to negotiate a bend, struck a pedestrian and subsequently crashed into the ditch.<\/p>\n<p>The pedestrian sustained minor injuries and did not require medical attention&#8230;.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/news.aspx?s=1&#038;i=76527&#038;page=vehicle-strikes-pedestrian-before-crashing-into-ditch-waterloo-kzn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on Arrive Alive <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A pedestrian sustained minor injuries after a vehicle struck him before crashing into a roadside ditch on the M27 near Waterloo, KwaZulu-Natal today (Saturday). Members of Reaction Unit South Africa (RUSA) responded to the scene after being alerted by a passerby who witnessed the incident. Upon arrival, Reaction Officers found Tow Truck Operators recovering a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":44142,"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\/638982225_1354213056732450_8052604139604809941_n.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2149],"tags":[66,2152],"class_list":["post-44141","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\/638982225_1354213056732450_8052604139604809941_n.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44141","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=44141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44141\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}