{"id":45336,"date":"2026-03-25T17:27:46","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T15:27:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/vehicle-rolls-after-striking-a-rock-on-the-n3-towards-the-r550-bridge\/"},"modified":"2026-03-25T17:27:46","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T15:27:46","slug":"vehicle-rolls-after-striking-a-rock-on-the-n3-towards-the-r550-bridge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/vehicle-rolls-after-striking-a-rock-on-the-n3-towards-the-r550-bridge\/","title":{"rendered":"Vehicle rolls after striking a rock on the N3 towards the R550 bridge."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Volunteers, together with GPG were dispatched to an accident on the N3 towards the R550 bridge.<\/p>\n<p>Upon arrival, it was found that a light motor vehicle travelling north struck a rock in the roadway, lost control, and overturned, leaving three patients injured.<\/p>\n<p>A short distance away, a bakkie travelling south also struck a rock in the road. The vehicle overturned over the barrier and rolled down the embankment.<\/p>\n<p>All patients were transported by GPG to hospital for further care.<\/p>\n<p>Vehicle rolls after striking a rock on the N3 towards the R550 bridge.https:\/\/t.co\/w6PuuYt62l#ArriveAlive #RolloverCrash #Rocks #Crime pic.twitter.com\/pMEAi7Eypu&mdash; Arrive Alive (@_ArriveAlive) March 25, 2026&#8230;<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/news.aspx?s=1&#038;i=76863&#038;page=vehicle-rolls-after-striking-a-rock-on-the-n3-towards-the-r550-bridge\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on Arrive Alive <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Volunteers, together with GPG were dispatched to an accident on the N3 towards the R550 bridge. Upon arrival, it was found that a light motor vehicle travelling north struck a rock in the roadway, lost control, and overturned, leaving three patients injured. A short distance away, a bakkie travelling south also struck a rock in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":45337,"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\/656053865_1368446371976298_1889169864047657046_n.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2149],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-accidents"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/\/ckfinder\/userfiles\/images\/656053865_1368446371976298_1889169864047657046_n.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45336","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=45336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45336\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}