{"id":45989,"date":"2026-04-23T08:17:23","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T06:17:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/two-killed-in-a-crash-leondale\/"},"modified":"2026-04-23T08:17:23","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T06:17:23","slug":"two-killed-in-a-crash-leondale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/two-killed-in-a-crash-leondale\/","title":{"rendered":"Two killed in a crash, Leondale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Wednesday 22 April 2026, the Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Police Department (EMPD) Freeway Unit Officers, attended to a serious accident on the N3 direction north, just before the Leondale on-ramp.<\/p>\n<p>Upon arrival, Officers found a collision involving a white Ford LDV and a silver VW Polo hatchback, which resulted in two fatalities. The unknown deceased, believed to be males in their late thirties, succumbed to their injuries at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>One passenger sustained serious injuries and was treated accordingly, while the driver of the Polo escaped without injuries. The deceased were transported to the Germiston mortuary.<\/p>\n<p>The road remains affected, with only one lane currently open. Motorists are urged to approach with caution and be patient.<\/p>\n<p>#EMPD<br \/>\n#southernregion&#8230;<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/news.aspx?s=1&#038;i=77141&#038;page=two-killed-in-a-crash-leondale\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on Arrive Alive <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Wednesday 22 April 2026, the Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Police Department (EMPD) Freeway Unit Officers, attended to a serious accident on the N3 direction north, just before the Leondale on-ramp. Upon arrival, Officers found a collision involving a white Ford LDV and a silver VW Polo hatchback, which resulted in two fatalities. The unknown deceased, believed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":45990,"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\/679023410_985809951066937_2861418420833981275_n.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2149],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-accidents"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/\/ckfinder\/userfiles\/images\/679023410_985809951066937_2861418420833981275_n.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45989","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=45989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45989\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}