{"id":45852,"date":"2026-04-16T07:19:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T05:19:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/fit-run-thief-apprehended-canelands-kzn\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T07:19:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T05:19:08","slug":"fit-run-thief-apprehended-canelands-kzn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/fit-run-thief-apprehended-canelands-kzn\/","title":{"rendered":"Fit &amp; Run Thief Apprehended: Canelands &#8211; KZN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man who fled after allegedly failing to pay for a battery fitted to his vehicle at a tyre &amp; battery fitment centre was apprehended in Canelands &#8211; KZN today (Wednesday).<\/p>\n<p>Members of Reaction Unit South Africa (RUSA) were called out approximately two (2) weeks ago after the fitment centre reported that the driver of a silver Opel Corsa bakkie had sped off without paying for a newly installed battery.<\/p>\n<p>While on patrol today (Wednesday) on Vincent Dickenson Road in Canelands &#8211; KZN, a Reaction Officer noticed a vehicle matching the circulated description. The registration number also corresponded with the details previously provided.<\/p>\n<p>The vehicle was stopped and the driver was interviewed. He confirmed that the battery had been fitted and claimed that he had forgotten to make payment of R900.<\/p>\n<p>The Manager of the fitment centre arrived shortly thereafter and it was decided that the matter would be resolved between both parties&#8230;.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/news.aspx?s=1&#038;i=77066&#038;page=fit-and-run-thief-apprehended-canelands-kzn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on Arrive Alive <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A man who fled after allegedly failing to pay for a battery fitted to his vehicle at a tyre &amp; battery fitment centre was apprehended in Canelands &#8211; KZN today (Wednesday). Members of Reaction Unit South Africa (RUSA) were called out approximately two (2) weeks ago after the fitment centre reported that the driver of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":45853,"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\/669379419_1398219802331775_7966442540253033141_n.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2149],"tags":[66,2152],"class_list":["post-45852","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\/669379419_1398219802331775_7966442540253033141_n.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45852","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=45852"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45852\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}