{"id":46963,"date":"2026-05-29T11:08:32","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T09:08:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/nine-people-were-killed-in-a-taxi-vs-truck-collision-between-potchefstroom-and-parys\/"},"modified":"2026-05-29T11:08:32","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T09:08:32","slug":"nine-people-were-killed-in-a-taxi-vs-truck-collision-between-potchefstroom-and-parys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/nine-people-were-killed-in-a-taxi-vs-truck-collision-between-potchefstroom-and-parys\/","title":{"rendered":"Nine people were killed in a taxi vs truck collision between Potchefstroom and Parys"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nine people have lost their lives in an accident in the early hours of this morning between a taxi and a truck. It appears the taxi was leaving Potchefstroom, driving towards Parys, when the accident happened. Seven men, one woman and a child believed to be between 10 and 14 have been certified deceased.<\/p>\n<p>Department of Community Safety and Transport Management law enforcement officers are at the scene&#8230;.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/news.aspx?s=1&#038;i=77495&#038;page=nine-people-were-killed-in-a-taxi-vs-truck-collision-between-potchefstroom-and-parys\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on Arrive Alive <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nine people have lost their lives in an accident in the early hours of this morning between a taxi and a truck. It appears the taxi was leaving Potchefstroom, driving towards Parys, when the accident happened. Seven men, one woman and a child believed to be between 10 and 14 have been certified deceased. Department [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":46964,"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\/Nine%20people%20were%20killed%20in%20a%20taxi%20vs%20truck%20collision%20between%20Potchefstroom%20and%20Parys.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2149],"tags":[1888,1327],"class_list":["post-46963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-accidents","tag-taxi","tag-taxi-accident"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/\/ckfinder\/userfiles\/images\/Nine%20people%20were%20killed%20in%20a%20taxi%20vs%20truck%20collision%20between%20Potchefstroom%20and%20Parys.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46963","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=46963"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46963\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}