{"id":44905,"date":"2026-03-19T10:59:57","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T08:59:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/pedestrian-accident-involving-a-bicycle-and-a-truck-on-watermeyer-street-close-to-the-r104-in-silverton-area-of-pretoria-east\/"},"modified":"2026-03-19T10:59:57","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T08:59:57","slug":"pedestrian-accident-involving-a-bicycle-and-a-truck-on-watermeyer-street-close-to-the-r104-in-silverton-area-of-pretoria-east","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/pedestrian-accident-involving-a-bicycle-and-a-truck-on-watermeyer-street-close-to-the-r104-in-silverton-area-of-pretoria-east\/","title":{"rendered":"Pedestrian accident involving a bicycle and a truck on Watermeyer street close to the R104 in Silverton area of Pretoria east."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Volunteer Emergency Medical Response Unit received a call for a serious pedestrian accident involving a bicycle and a truck on Watermeyer street close to the R104 in Silverton area of Pretoria east. On arrival with other volunteer and private services we found 1 patient who sustained serious injuries to their lower limb with multiple suspected fractures. The patient was stabilized on scene before being transported to a specialist hospital under Advanced Life Support care. <\/p>\n<p>Thank you to Emer-G-Med, Pretoria Volunteer Emergency Services , ER24 EMS (Pty) Ltd., and Gauteng Emergency Medical Services for assisting with the scene.<\/p>\n<p>Volunteer Emergency Medical Response Unit (VEMRU) is a registered NPC and PBO that responds to medical and trauma emergencies for FREE.<\/p>\n<p>VEMRU is solely reliant on sponsors and donations for operational costs.<\/p>\n<p>Please consider supporting this life saving cause.<\/p>\n<p>Sponsorship opportunities and Section 18a Tax certificates for businesses and individuals&#8230;<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/news.aspx?s=1&#038;i=76810&#038;page=pedestrian-accident-involving-a-bicycle-and-a-truck-on-watermeyer-street-close-to-the-r104-in-silverton-area-of-pretoria-east\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on Arrive Alive <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Volunteer Emergency Medical Response Unit received a call for a serious pedestrian accident involving a bicycle and a truck on Watermeyer street close to the R104 in Silverton area of Pretoria east. On arrival with other volunteer and private services we found 1 patient who sustained serious injuries to their lower limb with multiple [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":44906,"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\/Distribution%20of%20injuries%20on%20the%20body%20of%20a%20pedestrian%20in%20a%20frontal%20car%E2%80%93pedestrian%20collision.JPG","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2149],"tags":[164],"class_list":["post-44905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-accidents","tag-gauteng"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/\/ckfinder\/userfiles\/images\/Distribution%20of%20injuries%20on%20the%20body%20of%20a%20pedestrian%20in%20a%20frontal%20car%E2%80%93pedestrian%20collision.JPG","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44905","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=44905"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44905\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}