{"id":46240,"date":"2026-05-02T08:57:20","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T06:57:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/pedestrian-vehicle-collision-on-the-zambezi-road-extension\/"},"modified":"2026-05-02T08:57:20","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T06:57:20","slug":"pedestrian-vehicle-collision-on-the-zambezi-road-extension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/pedestrian-vehicle-collision-on-the-zambezi-road-extension\/","title":{"rendered":"Pedestrian-vehicle collision on the Zambezi Road extension."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At approximately 19:00 this evening, Pretoria Volunteer Emergency Services (PVES) responded to a pedestrian-vehicle collision on the Zambezi Road extension.<\/p>\n<p>The incident was reported as a pedestrian accident involving a patient who sustained a traumatic brain injury. Emergency Support Team (EST) and Kelo Delta On-Call were already on scene with first responders upon our arrival.<\/p>\n<p>PVES assisted by:<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Placing the patient on monitoring equipment<br \/>\n&#8211; Conducting a full clinical assessment<br \/>\n&#8211; Establishing intravenous (IV) access  <\/p>\n<p>The patient was found to be in a critical but stable condition. Gauteng Provincial Ambulance Services were activated to the scene for further transport and advanced care.<\/p>\n<p>Safety Message to the Public:  <\/p>\n<p>We urge all motorists traveling along this route to exercise extreme caution. The area is poorly lit, and there is frequent pedestrian movement across the roadway.  <\/p>\n<p>We further appeal to the Tshwane Municipality to consider improving lighting infrastructure&#8230;<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/news.aspx?s=1&#038;i=77239&#038;page=pedestrian-vehicle-collision-on-the-zambezi-road-extension\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on Arrive Alive <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At approximately 19:00 this evening, Pretoria Volunteer Emergency Services (PVES) responded to a pedestrian-vehicle collision on the Zambezi Road extension. The incident was reported as a pedestrian accident involving a patient who sustained a traumatic brain injury. Emergency Support Team (EST) and Kelo Delta On-Call were already on scene with first responders upon our arrival. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":46241,"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%202026-05-02%20074147.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2149],"tags":[164],"class_list":["post-46240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-accidents","tag-gauteng"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/\/ckfinder\/userfiles\/images\/Screenshot%202026-05-02%20074147.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46240","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=46240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46240\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}