{"id":44743,"date":"2026-03-12T22:26:27","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T20:26:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/crash-involving-a-white-vw-golf-and-a-truck-on-the-r36-towards-ofcolaco-near-the-d21-road\/"},"modified":"2026-03-12T22:26:27","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T20:26:27","slug":"crash-involving-a-white-vw-golf-and-a-truck-on-the-r36-towards-ofcolaco-near-the-d21-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/crash-involving-a-white-vw-golf-and-a-truck-on-the-r36-towards-ofcolaco-near-the-d21-road\/","title":{"rendered":"Crash involving a white VW Golf and a truck on the R36 towards Ofcolaco near the D21 road."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One person has been declared dead following a crash involving a white VW Golf and a truck on the R36 towards Ofcolaco near the D21 road.<\/p>\n<p>The accident reportedly occurred at around 13:15, and the truck is currently obstructing traffic on the road.<\/p>\n<p>Motorists travelling in the area are urged to drive with caution and expect delays as emergency services remain on the scene managing the situation&#8230;.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/news.aspx?s=1&#038;i=76733&#038;page=crash-involving-a-white-vw-golf-and-a-truck-on-the-r36-towards-ofcolaco-near-the-d21-road\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on Arrive Alive <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One person has been declared dead following a crash involving a white VW Golf and a truck on the R36 towards Ofcolaco near the D21 road. The accident reportedly occurred at around 13:15, and the truck is currently obstructing traffic on the road. Motorists travelling in the area are urged to drive with caution and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":44744,"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\/650751017_906378512286979_1034641591952098108_n%20(1).jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2149],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-accidents"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/\/ckfinder\/userfiles\/images\/650751017_906378512286979_1034641591952098108_n%20(1).jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44743","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=44743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44743\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}