{"id":46797,"date":"2026-05-23T10:39:20","date_gmt":"2026-05-23T08:39:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/taxi-driver-critically-injured-in-collision-with-truck-r102-canelands-kzn\/"},"modified":"2026-05-23T10:39:20","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T08:39:20","slug":"taxi-driver-critically-injured-in-collision-with-truck-r102-canelands-kzn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/taxi-driver-critically-injured-in-collision-with-truck-r102-canelands-kzn\/","title":{"rendered":"Taxi Driver Critically Injured In Collision With Truck: R102 Canelands – KZN"},"content":{"rendered":"

Multiple people sustained injuries following a collision between a white Toyota Quantum taxi and a truck on the R102 in the vicinity of Canelands – KZN this afternoon (Friday, 22\/05\/2026).<\/p>\n

Reaction Unit South Africa (RUSA) received multiple calls for assistance from passing motorists. Reaction Officers were immediately dispatched and on arrival, discovered that the taxi had collided into the side of a truck.<\/p>\n

Several occupants from the taxi sustained injuries including the driver who was trapped in the wreckage in a critical condition. The driver of the truck escaped unharmed. Fire Fighters utilised the Jaws of Life to free the critically injured male from the wreckage.<\/p>\n

The injured were stabilised on scene before being expedited to hospital by a private ambulance service…<\/p>\n

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Multiple people sustained injuries following a collision between a white Toyota Quantum taxi and a truck on the R102 in the vicinity of Canelands – KZN this afternoon (Friday, 22\/05\/2026). Reaction Unit South Africa (RUSA) received multiple calls for assistance from passing motorists. Reaction Officers were immediately dispatched and on arrival, discovered that the taxi […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":46798,"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\/705229251_1429953189158436_1249574075240030615_n.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2149],"tags":[66,2152,1888,1327],"class_list":["post-46797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-accidents","tag-kwazulu-natal","tag-kzn","tag-taxi","tag-taxi-accident"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/\/ckfinder\/userfiles\/images\/705229251_1429953189158436_1249574075240030615_n.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46797","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=46797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46797\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}