{"id":45883,"date":"2026-04-20T08:01:22","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T06:01:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/baby-killed-in-horror-head-on-collision-folweni\/"},"modified":"2026-04-20T08:01:22","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T06:01:22","slug":"baby-killed-in-horror-head-on-collision-folweni","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/baby-killed-in-horror-head-on-collision-folweni\/","title":{"rendered":"Baby killed in Horror Head on Collision, Folweni"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just after 04:30 pm on Sunday afternoon, ALS Paramedics responded to a horrific head on collision on the M35 Folweni South of Durban. <\/p>\n<p>Paramedics arrived on the scene to find chaos and carnage as the badly damaged vehicles obstructed the roadway. Paramedics found that both vehicles drivers were severely entrapped in the wreckage. Immediately the Ethekweni Fire Department was dispatched to assist. Whilst<\/p>\n<p>Paramedics worked to stabilize the two drivers a Male and a Female, Fire Fighters used the Jaws of Life and other hydraulic equipment to cut them free. Once freed from the wreckage the two were carefully extricated before being loaded in awaiting Ambulances. <\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately Paramedics found a baby believed to be less than a month old had also been involved in the collision and unfortunately suffered major fatal injuries and unfortunately was declared deceased on the scene by Paramedics.<\/p>\n<p>At this stage the events leading up to this horrific crash is unknown however SAPS and Metro&#8230;<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/news.aspx?s=1&#038;i=77106&#038;page=baby-killed-in-horror-head-on-collision-folweni\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on Arrive Alive <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just after 04:30 pm on Sunday afternoon, ALS Paramedics responded to a horrific head on collision on the M35 Folweni South of Durban. Paramedics arrived on the scene to find chaos and carnage as the badly damaged vehicles obstructed the roadway. Paramedics found that both vehicles drivers were severely entrapped in the wreckage. Immediately the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":45884,"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\/671058106_18105674072508912_4649954838861775418_n.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2149],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-accidents"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/\/ckfinder\/userfiles\/images\/671058106_18105674072508912_4649954838861775418_n.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45883","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=45883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45883\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}