{"id":45770,"date":"2026-04-11T06:50:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T04:50:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/mec-morweng-condemns-fatal-collision-near-swartruggens\/"},"modified":"2026-04-11T06:50:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T04:50:12","slug":"mec-morweng-condemns-fatal-collision-near-swartruggens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/mec-morweng-condemns-fatal-collision-near-swartruggens\/","title":{"rendered":"MEC Morweng condemns fatal collision near Swartruggens."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The MEC for Community Safety and Transport Management, Wessels Morweng has expressed disappointment and concern over an incident of blatant disregard for road safety regulations. This follows a fatal accident between Swartruggens and Rustenburg on the N4, in the early hours of Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>According to initial reports, a Botswana male national, driving a truck allegedly made a u-turn on a hill road with clear barrier lines.  As a result, a Polo Vivo driving in the opposite direction collided with the truck. As a consequence the driver of the Polo Vivo was certified dead on the scene. <\/p>\n<p>MEC Wessels Morweng extends condolences to the bereaved family and cautions motorists against lawlessness and reckless driving. <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;It is unfortunate that this incident is the second in the province this week to claim a life. We have always said that one life lost on our roads, is one too many. I therefore extend my most humble condolences to the families that have lost their loved one due to this&#8230;<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/news.aspx?s=1&#038;i=77006&#038;page=mec-morweng-condemns-fatal-collision-near-swartruggens\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on Arrive Alive <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The MEC for Community Safety and Transport Management, Wessels Morweng has expressed disappointment and concern over an incident of blatant disregard for road safety regulations. This follows a fatal accident between Swartruggens and Rustenburg on the N4, in the early hours of Thursday. According to initial reports, a Botswana male national, driving a truck allegedly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":45771,"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\/670488254_1410104617825555_6689836665109919668_n.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2149],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-accidents"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/\/ckfinder\/userfiles\/images\/670488254_1410104617825555_6689836665109919668_n.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45770","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=45770"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45770\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}