{"id":45830,"date":"2026-04-13T19:01:54","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T17:01:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/man-fatally-struck-crossing-highway-umhlanga-kzn\/"},"modified":"2026-04-13T19:01:54","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T17:01:54","slug":"man-fatally-struck-crossing-highway-umhlanga-kzn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/man-fatally-struck-crossing-highway-umhlanga-kzn\/","title":{"rendered":"Man Fatally Struck Crossing Highway: Umhlanga \u2013 KZN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A pedestrian was killed in a collision on the M41 near the Umhlanga Rocks off-ramp in Umhlanga &ndash; KZN this morning (Monday).<\/p>\n<p>Members of Reaction Unit South Africa (RUSA) were dispatched to the scene at approximately 07:35 after reports of a serious vehicle accident involving a pedestrian.<\/p>\n<p>It was established that a female was travelling to work with her young daughter when the accident occurred. The child was not injured.<\/p>\n<p>According to information gathered at the scene, a man was allegedly attempting to flee across the highway when he was struck by the white Honda Elevate. Paramedics examined the pedestrian and declared him deceased on scene.<\/p>\n<p>The vehicle involved sustained damage to the engine compartment and passenger side of the windscreen.<\/p>\n<p>Man Fatally Struck Crossing Highway: Umhlanga \u2013 KZNhttps:\/\/t.co\/FNZSbE7QFr#ArriveAlive #RoadSafety pic.twitter.com\/hmc9ZXFCJv&mdash; Arrive Alive (@_ArriveAlive) April 13, 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=77036&#038;page=man-fatally-struck-crossing-highway-umhlanga-kzn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on Arrive Alive <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A pedestrian was killed in a collision on the M41 near the Umhlanga Rocks off-ramp in Umhlanga &ndash; KZN this morning (Monday). Members of Reaction Unit South Africa (RUSA) were dispatched to the scene at approximately 07:35 after reports of a serious vehicle accident involving a pedestrian. It was established that a female was travelling [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":45831,"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\/672074928_1396541955832893_5039800282328042319_n.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2149],"tags":[66,2152],"class_list":["post-45830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-accidents","tag-kwazulu-natal","tag-kzn"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/\/ckfinder\/userfiles\/images\/672074928_1396541955832893_5039800282328042319_n.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45830","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=45830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45830\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}