{"id":45878,"date":"2026-04-19T19:59:45","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T17:59:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/updatefatal-incident-involving-a-gas-tanker-fire-on-the-n12-westbound-before-comaro-road-in-bassonia\/"},"modified":"2026-04-19T19:59:45","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T17:59:45","slug":"updatefatal-incident-involving-a-gas-tanker-fire-on-the-n12-westbound-before-comaro-road-in-bassonia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/updatefatal-incident-involving-a-gas-tanker-fire-on-the-n12-westbound-before-comaro-road-in-bassonia\/","title":{"rendered":"Update:Fatal incident involving a gas tanker fire on the N12 Westbound before Comaro Road in Bassonia."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Johannesburg Metropolitan Police Department (JMPD), in conjunction with the City of Johannesburg Emergency Management Services (EMS), is currently responding to an incident involving a gas tanker fire on the N12 Westbound before Comaro Road in Bassonia.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this morning, a gas tanker was stationary on the N12 Westbound when a light motor vehicle collided with the rear of the tanker. The impact triggered a fire.<\/p>\n<p>Regrettably, JMPD can confirm that the driver of the light motor vehicle sustained fatal injuries and was pronounced deceased on the scene.<\/p>\n<p>While the fire has been managed, the scene remains highly volatile. City of Emergency Management Services (EMS) are currently decanting the remaining gas from the damaged tanker into a secondary tanker. This decanting process is expected to take between two to four hours. The decanting process will be followed by mop-up operations which are likely to take several hours as well.<\/p>\n<p>The freeway remains strictly closed to all traffic&#8230;<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/news.aspx?s=1&#038;i=77103&#038;page=update-fatal-incident-involving-a-gas-tanker-fire-on-the-n12-westbound-before-comaro-road-in-bassonia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on Arrive Alive <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Johannesburg Metropolitan Police Department (JMPD), in conjunction with the City of Johannesburg Emergency Management Services (EMS), is currently responding to an incident involving a gas tanker fire on the N12 Westbound before Comaro Road in Bassonia. Earlier this morning, a gas tanker was stationary on the N12 Westbound when a light motor vehicle collided [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":45879,"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\/Screenshot%202026-04-19%20175345.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2149],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-accidents"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/\/ckfinder\/userfiles\/images\/Screenshot%202026-04-19%20175345.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45878","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=45878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45878\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}