{"id":46755,"date":"2026-05-22T04:34:17","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T02:34:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/the-transport-ministers-have-expressed-deep-sadness-following-a-major-crash-that-claimed-the-lives-of-10-people-and-left-3-injured-in-mpumalanga\/"},"modified":"2026-05-22T04:34:17","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T02:34:17","slug":"the-transport-ministers-have-expressed-deep-sadness-following-a-major-crash-that-claimed-the-lives-of-10-people-and-left-3-injured-in-mpumalanga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/the-transport-ministers-have-expressed-deep-sadness-following-a-major-crash-that-claimed-the-lives-of-10-people-and-left-3-injured-in-mpumalanga\/","title":{"rendered":"The Transport Ministers have expressed deep sadness following a major crash that claimed the lives of 10 people and left 3 injured in Mpumalanga"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Minister of Transport, Ms Barbara Creecy, and the Deputy Minister, Mr Mkhuleko Hlengwa, have expressed deep sadness following a major crash that claimed the lives of 10 people (9 males and 1 female), and left 3 injured on Thursday, 21 May 2026, in Mpumalanga.<\/p>\n<p>According to the National Traffic Police, a Toyota minibus taxi and a bus collided head-on at approximately 05:15 on the R39 between Standerton and Morgenzon in Mpumalanga.<\/p>\n<p>Creecy and Hlengwa have extended their condolences to the bereaved families and also expressed their wish for a speedy and full recovery to those injured.<\/p>\n<p>They have also emphasised that it is important for motorists to take heed of the road safety messages.<\/p>\n<p>Long-distance drivers are urged to take a break after every 200 km or after every 2 hours of driving.<\/p>\n<p>This is due to a proven fact that fatigue is a silent killer.Creecy and Hlengwa have instructed the RTMC to investigate the cause of the crash and submit a preliminary report within 48 hours.<\/p>\n<p>ISSUED&#8230;<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/news.aspx?s=1&#038;i=77427&#038;page=the-transport-ministers-have-expressed-deep-sadness-following-a-major-crash-that-claimed-the-lives-of-10-people-and-left-3-injured-in-mpumalanga\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on Arrive Alive <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Minister of Transport, Ms Barbara Creecy, and the Deputy Minister, Mr Mkhuleko Hlengwa, have expressed deep sadness following a major crash that claimed the lives of 10 people (9 males and 1 female), and left 3 injured on Thursday, 21 May 2026, in Mpumalanga. According to the National Traffic Police, a Toyota minibus taxi [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":46756,"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\/WhatsApp%20Image%202026-05-21%20at%2010_14_32(1).jpeg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2149],"tags":[2150,2151,313,1888,1327],"class_list":["post-46755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-accidents","tag-bus","tag-bus-accident","tag-mpumalanga","tag-taxi","tag-taxi-accident"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/\/ckfinder\/userfiles\/images\/WhatsApp%20Image%202026-05-21%20at%2010_14_32(1).jpeg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46755","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=46755"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46755\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}