{"id":45745,"date":"2026-04-10T06:46:20","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T04:46:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/n3-toll-route-traffic-alert-total-road-closure-near-42nd-hill-harrismith\/"},"modified":"2026-04-10T06:46:20","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T04:46:20","slug":"n3-toll-route-traffic-alert-total-road-closure-near-42nd-hill-harrismith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/n3-toll-route-traffic-alert-total-road-closure-near-42nd-hill-harrismith\/","title":{"rendered":"N3 TOLL ROUTE | TRAFFIC ALERT | Total road closure near 42nd Hill, Harrismith"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Total road closure near 42nd Hill, Harrismith | 05:45 on Friday, 10 April 2026 &mdash; A truck is currently obstructing the N3 Toll Route in both directions at  N3-7X 36.0 N near the Harrismith North Interchange (I\/C 34) in the Free State. <\/p>\n<p>All traffic is currently stacked at the scene of the closure resulting in significant delays toward Gauteng and KwaZulu-Natal. N3TC recommends that road users delay their travels to the area untilnfurther notice. <\/p>\n<p>Follow @N3Route on X for real-time traffic updates, or call the 24\/7 N3 Helpline 0800 63 43 57 to report emergency incidents or problems along N3 Toll Route between Cedara in KwaZulu-Natal and Heidelberg in Gauteng. <\/p>\n<p>ENDS.<\/p>\n<p>Issued by: N3 Toll Concession<\/p>\n<p>N3 TOLL ROUTE | TRAFFIC ALERT | Total road closure near 42nd Hill, Harrismith | 05:45 on Friday, 10 April 2026 \u2014 A truck is currently obstructing the N3 Toll Route in both directions at  N3-7X 36.0 N near the Harrismith North Interchange (I\/C 34) in the Free State. <\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/arrr.co.za\/6vEm3<\/p>\n<p>#ArriveAlive&#8230;<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/news.aspx?s=1&#038;i=76998&#038;page=n3-toll-route-traffic-alert-total-road-closure-near-42nd-hill-harrismith\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on Arrive Alive <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Total road closure near 42nd Hill, Harrismith | 05:45 on Friday, 10 April 2026 &mdash; A truck is currently obstructing the N3 Toll Route in both directions at N3-7X 36.0 N near the Harrismith North Interchange (I\/C 34) in the Free State. All traffic is currently stacked at the scene of the closure resulting in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":45746,"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\/N3TC_courtesy%20image.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2149],"tags":[852,164,66],"class_list":["post-45745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-accidents","tag-free-state","tag-gauteng","tag-kwazulu-natal"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/\/ckfinder\/userfiles\/images\/N3TC_courtesy%20image.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45745","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=45745"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45745\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}