{"id":45785,"date":"2026-04-11T18:52:20","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T16:52:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/vehicle-rollover-crash-on-de-villebois-maruil-drive-in-the-pretorius-park-area-of-pretoria-east\/"},"modified":"2026-04-11T18:52:20","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T16:52:20","slug":"vehicle-rollover-crash-on-de-villebois-maruil-drive-in-the-pretorius-park-area-of-pretoria-east","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/vehicle-rollover-crash-on-de-villebois-maruil-drive-in-the-pretorius-park-area-of-pretoria-east\/","title":{"rendered":"Vehicle rollover crash on De Villebois Maruil Drive in the Pretorius Park area of Pretoria East"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just before 23:00 the Volunteer Emergency Medical Response Unit received a call for a serious motor vehicle accident on De Villebois Maruil drive in the Pretorius Park area of Pretoria east. On arrival we found a single vehicle that overturned after colliding with a safety barrier, we found 1 patient still inside the overturned vehicle after their seatbelt got stuck, the patient was quickly removed and stabilized on scene before being transported to a nearby hospital with moderate injuries. Two other patients were assessed on scene, one patient was transported to a nearby hospital with minor injuries while the other escaped without injury. <\/p>\n<p>Thank you to Emergency Medical Solutions, Bestcare EMS, CERT-SA , Pretoria Volunteer Emergency Services , EST &#8211; Emergency Support Team , City of Tshwane Emergency Services and SAPS 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&#8230;<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/news.aspx?s=1&#038;i=77011&#038;page=vehicle-rollover-crash-on-de-villebois-maruil-drive-in-the-pretorius-park-area-of-pretoria-east\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on Arrive Alive <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just before 23:00 the Volunteer Emergency Medical Response Unit received a call for a serious motor vehicle accident on De Villebois Maruil drive in the Pretorius Park area of Pretoria east. On arrival we found a single vehicle that overturned after colliding with a safety barrier, we found 1 patient still inside the overturned vehicle [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":45786,"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\/670280084_1248007334173374_421353683501171455_n.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2149],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-accidents"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/\/ckfinder\/userfiles\/images\/670280084_1248007334173374_421353683501171455_n.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45785","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=45785"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45785\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}