{"id":45528,"date":"2026-04-01T06:02:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T04:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/motor-vehicle-collision-on-old-johannesburg-road-near-central-road-in-rooihuiskraal-centurion\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T06:02:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T04:02:00","slug":"motor-vehicle-collision-on-old-johannesburg-road-near-central-road-in-rooihuiskraal-centurion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/motor-vehicle-collision-on-old-johannesburg-road-near-central-road-in-rooihuiskraal-centurion\/","title":{"rendered":"Motor vehicle collision on Old Johannesburg Road near Central Road in Rooihuiskraal, Centurion."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Tuesday morning at approximately 08h00, our Centurion crew responded to a motor vehicle collision on Old Johannesburg Road near Central Road in Rooihuiskraal, Centurion.<\/p>\n<p>Upon arrival, it was found that a truck and a utility vehicle had collided, leaving five patients injured. Two patients sustained serious injuries, one sustained moderate injuries, and two sustained minor injuries.<\/p>\n<p>One of the seriously injured patients was trapped in the wreckage and had to be extricated using the Jaws of Life.<\/p>\n<p>All patients were stabilised on scene and transported to nearby hospitals in a stable condition.<\/p>\n<p>The exact circumstances surrounding the incident are not yet known, and the police have opened an accident report.<\/p>\n<p>We would like to thank the Tshwane Emergency Services Department, Tshwane Metropolitan Police Department, Wierda Brig Sector 2 CPF, SAPS, Netcare911, ER24, Emer-G-Med, Eye Witness EMS, Lenmed, MonitorNet,  Precision Towing, and First Help Towing for their assistance on scene<\/p>\n<p>Safety&#8230;<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/news.aspx?s=1&#038;i=76910&#038;page=motor-vehicle-collision-on-old-johannesburg-road-near-central-road-in-rooihuiskraal-centurion\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on Arrive Alive <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Tuesday morning at approximately 08h00, our Centurion crew responded to a motor vehicle collision on Old Johannesburg Road near Central Road in Rooihuiskraal, Centurion. Upon arrival, it was found that a truck and a utility vehicle had collided, leaving five patients injured. Two patients sustained serious injuries, one sustained moderate injuries, and two sustained [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":45529,"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\/659770666_1306864241540088_4301470276461980074_n.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2149],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-accidents"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/\/ckfinder\/userfiles\/images\/659770666_1306864241540088_4301470276461980074_n.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45528","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=45528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45528\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}