{"id":44593,"date":"2026-03-05T15:50:40","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T13:50:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/taxi-crash-leaves-one-dead-and-multiple-injured-pietermaritzburg\/"},"modified":"2026-03-05T15:50:40","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T13:50:40","slug":"taxi-crash-leaves-one-dead-and-multiple-injured-pietermaritzburg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/taxi-crash-leaves-one-dead-and-multiple-injured-pietermaritzburg\/","title":{"rendered":"Taxi crash leaves one dead and multiple injured, Pietermaritzburg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Midlands EMS crews were dispatched to Mbubu Road in Pietermaritzburg for a taxi accident.<\/p>\n<p>On arrival it was found that a taxi had been involved in a serious accident. One person was found to be entrapped in the vehicle and in a critical condition, requiring the use of specialized rescue equipment to free the patient. Once freed, the patient&rsquo;s condition deteriorated rapidly and the patient was unfortunately declared deceased on scene.<\/p>\n<p>Multiple other patients sustained injuries ranging from critical to minor and were treated on scene by various emergency services before being transported to various hospitals for further medical care.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities are currently in attendance and the cause of the accident is unknown at this stage&#8230;.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/news.aspx?s=1&#038;i=76652&#038;page=taxi-crash-leaves-one-dead-and-multiple-injured-pietermaritzburg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on Arrive Alive <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Midlands EMS crews were dispatched to Mbubu Road in Pietermaritzburg for a taxi accident. On arrival it was found that a taxi had been involved in a serious accident. One person was found to be entrapped in the vehicle and in a critical condition, requiring the use of specialized rescue equipment to free the patient. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":44594,"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\/646881141_1509586144503580_1702377564998299770_n.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2149],"tags":[1888,1327],"class_list":["post-44593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-accidents","tag-taxi","tag-taxi-accident"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/\/ckfinder\/userfiles\/images\/646881141_1509586144503580_1702377564998299770_n.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44593","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=44593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44593\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}