{"id":44632,"date":"2026-03-07T03:58:51","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T01:58:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/vehicle-check-point-conducted-on-the-m35-umbumbulu-road\/"},"modified":"2026-03-07T03:58:51","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T01:58:51","slug":"vehicle-check-point-conducted-on-the-m35-umbumbulu-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/vehicle-check-point-conducted-on-the-m35-umbumbulu-road\/","title":{"rendered":"Vehicle Check Point conducted on the M35 Umbumbulu Road."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Early this morning, members of the Durban Metro Police Service Strike Team together with South Region Isipingo members conducted a Vehicle Check Point on the M35 Umbumbulu Road.<\/p>\n<p>During the operation, a school transport bus was stopped and found to be overloaded with eight additional learners. One learner was seated on a bench placed in the passage, leaving no space for safe movement, placing the children at serious risk. <\/p>\n<p>The driver was charged accordingly. During the operation, officers issued 26 charges and suspended 18 vehicles for various traffic violations.<\/p>\n<p>The Durban Metro Police Service continues to prioritise the safety of learners and all road users&#8230;.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/news.aspx?s=1&#038;i=76664&#038;page=vehicle-check-point-conducted-on-the-m35-umbumbulu-road\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on Arrive Alive <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Early this morning, members of the Durban Metro Police Service Strike Team together with South Region Isipingo members conducted a Vehicle Check Point on the M35 Umbumbulu Road. During the operation, a school transport bus was stopped and found to be overloaded with eight additional learners. One learner was seated on a bench placed in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":44633,"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\/647136484_1341967284530674_5835007207047072822_n.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2149],"tags":[2150,2151],"class_list":["post-44632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-accidents","tag-bus","tag-bus-accident"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/\/ckfinder\/userfiles\/images\/647136484_1341967284530674_5835007207047072822_n.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44632","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=44632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44632\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}