{"id":46592,"date":"2026-05-16T10:04:58","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T08:04:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/motorbike-collision-on-solomon-mahlangu-drive-close-to-olympus-in-the-faerie-glen-area-of-pretoria-east\/"},"modified":"2026-05-16T10:04:58","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T08:04:58","slug":"motorbike-collision-on-solomon-mahlangu-drive-close-to-olympus-in-the-faerie-glen-area-of-pretoria-east","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/motorbike-collision-on-solomon-mahlangu-drive-close-to-olympus-in-the-faerie-glen-area-of-pretoria-east\/","title":{"rendered":"Motorbike collision on Solomon Mahlangu Drive close to Olympus in the Faerie Glen area of Pretoria East"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just before 23:00 the Volunteer Emergency Medical Response Unit received a call for a serious motor bike accident on Solomon Mahlangu drive close to Olympus in the Faerie Glen area of Pretoria east. On arrival we found a delivery bike that was rear ended at high speed. After a brief search the driver was located on the side of the road almost 50 meters from their bike, upon assessment the driver was found to have sustained fatal injuries and was declared deceased on arrival. The driver of the vehicle could not be found and it is alleged that they fled the scene in a different vehicle. <\/p>\n<p>The scene was handed over to SAPS to investigate. <\/p>\n<p>We send our deepest condolences to the family of the deceased.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you to Lakes Security Forum NPC , Alpha Security Forum  and Live Traffic NPC   for dispatching multiple security vehicles and assisting with road closures.<\/p>\n<p>Volunteer Emergency Medical Response Unit (VEMRU) is a registered NPC and PBO that responds to medical and trauma emergencies&#8230;<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/news.aspx?s=1&#038;i=77358&#038;page=motorbike-collision-on-solomon-mahlangu-drive-close-to-olympus-in-the-faerie-glen-area-of-pretoria-east\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on Arrive Alive <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just before 23:00 the Volunteer Emergency Medical Response Unit received a call for a serious motor bike accident on Solomon Mahlangu drive close to Olympus in the Faerie Glen area of Pretoria east. On arrival we found a delivery bike that was rear ended at high speed. After a brief search the driver was located [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":46593,"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\/698536615_1275966224710818_6282819283180904849_n.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2149],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-accidents"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/\/ckfinder\/userfiles\/images\/698536615_1275966224710818_6282819283180904849_n.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46592","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=46592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46592\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}