{"id":44561,"date":"2026-03-04T09:44:31","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T07:44:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/narrow-escape-from-a-fatal-head-on-crash-for-a-biker-on-the-n4-from-hectorspruit-to-malalane\/"},"modified":"2026-03-04T09:44:31","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T07:44:31","slug":"narrow-escape-from-a-fatal-head-on-crash-for-a-biker-on-the-n4-from-hectorspruit-to-malalane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/narrow-escape-from-a-fatal-head-on-crash-for-a-biker-on-the-n4-from-hectorspruit-to-malalane\/","title":{"rendered":"Narrow escape from a fatal head-on crash for a biker on the N4 from Hectorspruit to Malalane"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A biker had a very barrow escape from a reckless overtaking driver this morning on the N4 from Hectorspruit to Malalane.<\/p>\n<p>This also emphasises why we need to remain alert at all times &#8211; there are indeed idiots sharing the roads with us! <\/p>\n<p>Before you overtake  &#8211; Ask yourself &#8211; Is it Legal? Is it Safe? Is it Necessary?<\/p>\n<p>Narrow escape from a fatal head-on crash for a biker on the N4 from Hectorspruit to Malalane https:\/\/t.co\/uJVKIIYYbB #ArriveAlive #RecklessOvertaking @motocyclesafety pic.twitter.com\/yF81Ux3UtO&mdash; Arrive Alive (@_ArriveAlive) March 4, 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=76637&#038;page=narrow-escape-from-a-fatal-head-on-crash-for-a-biker-on-the-n4-from-hectorspruit-to-malalane\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on Arrive Alive <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A biker had a very barrow escape from a reckless overtaking driver this morning on the N4 from Hectorspruit to Malalane. This also emphasises why we need to remain alert at all times &#8211; there are indeed idiots sharing the roads with us! Before you overtake &#8211; Ask yourself &#8211; Is it Legal? Is it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":44562,"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\/Screenshot%202026-03-04%20083304.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2149],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-accidents"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/\/ckfinder\/userfiles\/images\/Screenshot%202026-03-04%20083304.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44561","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=44561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44561\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}