{"id":46214,"date":"2026-05-01T14:53:23","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T12:53:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/multi-vehicle-accident-leaves-2-injured-on-the-n3-southbound-just-before-peter-brown-avenue-in-pietermaritzburg\/"},"modified":"2026-05-01T14:53:23","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T12:53:23","slug":"multi-vehicle-accident-leaves-2-injured-on-the-n3-southbound-just-before-peter-brown-avenue-in-pietermaritzburg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/multi-vehicle-accident-leaves-2-injured-on-the-n3-southbound-just-before-peter-brown-avenue-in-pietermaritzburg\/","title":{"rendered":"Multi-vehicle accident leaves 2 injured on the N3 southbound just before Peter Brown Avenue in Pietermaritzburg."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Midlands EMS crews came across an accident on the N3 southbound just before Peter Brown Avenue in Pietermaritzburg.<\/p>\n<p>On arrival it was established that one car and a truck were involved in the initial accident.<\/p>\n<p>Midlands EMS crews immediately began assessing the scene and patients when, whilst in attendance, a secondary accident occurred involving a truck, an RTI vehicle, a towing vehicle, along with several other vehicles.<\/p>\n<p>The scene quickly escalated, requiring additional caution and coordination between emergency services to ensure the safety of all involved.<\/p>\n<p>Two people sustained moderate injuries and were treated on scene by Midlands EMS paramedics before being transported to a nearby hospital for further medical care.<\/p>\n<p>All other patients were assessed on scene.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities were in attendance and are investigating the cause of both incidents&#8230;.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/news.aspx?s=1&#038;i=77232&#038;page=multi-vehicle-accident-leaves-2-injured-on-the-n3-southbound-just-before-peter-brown-avenue-in-pietermaritzburg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on Arrive Alive <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Midlands EMS crews came across an accident on the N3 southbound just before Peter Brown Avenue in Pietermaritzburg. On arrival it was established that one car and a truck were involved in the initial accident. Midlands EMS crews immediately began assessing the scene and patients when, whilst in attendance, a secondary accident occurred involving a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":46215,"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\/683453317_1559443639517830_3490452281309302558_n.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2149],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-accidents"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/\/ckfinder\/userfiles\/images\/683453317_1559443639517830_3490452281309302558_n.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46214","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=46214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46214\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}