{"id":44658,"date":"2026-03-08T04:02:20","date_gmt":"2026-03-08T02:02:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/motor-vehicle-collision-on-the-r61-ramsgate-offramp\/"},"modified":"2026-03-08T04:02:20","modified_gmt":"2026-03-08T02:02:20","slug":"motor-vehicle-collision-on-the-r61-ramsgate-offramp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/motor-vehicle-collision-on-the-r61-ramsgate-offramp\/","title":{"rendered":"Motor vehicle collision on the R61 Ramsgate offramp."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last night our Med-Evac team responded to a serious motor vehicle accident on the R61 Ramsgate offramp.<\/p>\n<p>A female patient sustained significant injuries and required urgent advanced medical care. <\/p>\n<p>After stabilisation on scene, she was transported to Margate Airport, where a Netcare911 helicopter was activated for aeromedical transfer to a Durban hospital for further treatment.<\/p>\n<p>This incident highlights the importance of rapid response, skilled medical teams, and coordinated emergency services working together to give patients the best possible chance of recovery.<\/p>\n<p>We would like to thank all services involved for their cooperation and professionalism.<\/p>\n<p>Med-Evac Emergency Medical Service<\/p>\n<p>082 940 1590<\/p>\n<p>Because every second counts.<\/p>\n<p>#MedEvac #EmergencyResponse #BecauseEverySecondCounts #SouthCoastEMS #AirMedicalRescue&#8230;<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/news.aspx?s=1&#038;i=76673&#038;page=motor-vehicle-collision-on-the-r61-ramsgate-offramp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on Arrive Alive <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night our Med-Evac team responded to a serious motor vehicle accident on the R61 Ramsgate offramp. A female patient sustained significant injuries and required urgent advanced medical care. After stabilisation on scene, she was transported to Margate Airport, where a Netcare911 helicopter was activated for aeromedical transfer to a Durban hospital for further treatment. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":44659,"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\/647040344_1498867985238007_539926052932767432_n.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2149],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-accidents"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/\/ckfinder\/userfiles\/images\/647040344_1498867985238007_539926052932767432_n.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44658","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=44658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44658\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}