{"id":47023,"date":"2026-06-01T11:22:06","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T09:22:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/a-pedestrian-has-sadly-lost-their-life-following-a-fatal-vehicle-pedestrian-collision-on-the-m25-kwa-mashu-highway-durban\/"},"modified":"2026-06-01T11:22:06","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T09:22:06","slug":"a-pedestrian-has-sadly-lost-their-life-following-a-fatal-vehicle-pedestrian-collision-on-the-m25-kwa-mashu-highway-durban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/a-pedestrian-has-sadly-lost-their-life-following-a-fatal-vehicle-pedestrian-collision-on-the-m25-kwa-mashu-highway-durban\/","title":{"rendered":"A pedestrian has sadly lost their life following a fatal vehicle-pedestrian collision on the M25 Kwa Mashu Highway, Durban"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A pedestrian has sadly lost their life following a fatal vehicle-pedestrian collision on the M25 Kwa Mashu Highway, Durban on Sunday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>Emergency medical personnel from KZN VIP responded to reports of the incident. Upon arrival, medics found that a pedestrian had allegedly attempted to cross the busy roadway when they were struck by a light motor vehicle. The pedestrian was found entrapped beneath the vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>KZN VIP paramedics immediately assessed the patient; however, due to the severity of the injuries sustained, the pedestrian showed no signs of life and was sadly declared deceased at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>Members of the South African Police Service (SAPS), together with other emergency service providers, attended the scene and assisted with the incident.<\/p>\n<p>Traffic along the roadway was significantly affected while emergency personnel and law enforcement officials conducted their on-scene investigations and cleared the area.<\/p>\n<p>The circumstances leading up to the collision remain&#8230;<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/news.aspx?s=1&#038;i=77521&#038;page=a-pedestrian-has-sadly-lost-their-life-following-a-fatal-vehicle-pedestrian-collision-on-the-m25-kwa-mashu-highway-durban\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on Arrive Alive <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A pedestrian has sadly lost their life following a fatal vehicle-pedestrian collision on the M25 Kwa Mashu Highway, Durban on Sunday afternoon. Emergency medical personnel from KZN VIP responded to reports of the incident. Upon arrival, medics found that a pedestrian had allegedly attempted to cross the busy roadway when they were struck by a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":47024,"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\/712447517_1413190097408392_2545458627991209697_n.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2149],"tags":[66,2152],"class_list":["post-47023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-accidents","tag-kwazulu-natal","tag-kzn"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/\/ckfinder\/userfiles\/images\/712447517_1413190097408392_2545458627991209697_n.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47023","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=47023"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47023\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}