{"id":47255,"date":"2026-06-12T00:17:52","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T22:17:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/fortunate-escape-from-serious-injuries-after-a-truck-crashed-into-a-tree-at-the-corner-of-11th-avenue-and-3rd-street-houghton\/"},"modified":"2026-06-12T00:17:52","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T22:17:52","slug":"fortunate-escape-from-serious-injuries-after-a-truck-crashed-into-a-tree-at-the-corner-of-11th-avenue-and-3rd-street-houghton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/fortunate-escape-from-serious-injuries-after-a-truck-crashed-into-a-tree-at-the-corner-of-11th-avenue-and-3rd-street-houghton\/","title":{"rendered":"Fortunate escape from serious injuries after a truck crashed into a tree at the corner of 11th Avenue and 3rd Street, Houghton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Vision Tactical members are on scene at the corner of 11th Avenue and 3rd Street, Houghton, following a serious incident involving a truck and a fallen tree.<\/p>\n<p>It is reported that the truck suffered a mechanical failure, causing it to collide with a large tree. The impact brought the tree crashing down onto a passing vehicle, leaving debris scattered across the roadway.<\/p>\n<p>Members are securing and assessing the scene<\/p>\n<p>Fortunately, despite the severity of the incident, no serious injuries have been reported at this stage. <\/p>\n<p>On the Arrive Alive Road Safety website:<\/p>\n<p>Safety from Falls, Falling Objects and Crush Injuries&#8230;<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/news.aspx?s=1&#038;i=77657&#038;page=fortunate-escape-from-serious-injuries-after-a-truck-crashed-into-a-tree-at-the-corner-of-11th-avenue-and-3rd-street-houghton\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on Arrive Alive <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vision Tactical members are on scene at the corner of 11th Avenue and 3rd Street, Houghton, following a serious incident involving a truck and a fallen tree. It is reported that the truck suffered a mechanical failure, causing it to collide with a large tree. The impact brought the tree crashing down onto a passing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":47256,"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\/722205114_1570094735122601_8450665230927090416_n.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2149],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-accidents"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/\/ckfinder\/userfiles\/images\/722205114_1570094735122601_8450665230927090416_n.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47255","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=47255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47255\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}