{"id":47368,"date":"2026-06-16T00:40:58","date_gmt":"2026-06-15T22:40:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/an-abnormal-vehicle-has-experienced-a-mechanical-breakdown-disrupting-traffic-on-the-r521\/"},"modified":"2026-06-16T00:40:58","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T22:40:58","slug":"an-abnormal-vehicle-has-experienced-a-mechanical-breakdown-disrupting-traffic-on-the-r521","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/an-abnormal-vehicle-has-experienced-a-mechanical-breakdown-disrupting-traffic-on-the-r521\/","title":{"rendered":"An abnormal vehicle has experienced a mechanical breakdown, disrupting traffic on the R521"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Limpopo Department of Transport and Community Safety advises motorists of a traffic disruption on the R521, approximately 5km before Vivo. An abnormal vehicle has experienced a mechanical breakdown, resulting in the closure of the left northbound lane. <\/p>\n<p>Traffic officers are on scene managing traffic flow. The closure is anticipated to remain in effect overnight.<\/p>\n<p>Motorists are urged to approach the area with caution, observe all traffic control measures, and allow for additional travel time.<\/p>\n<p>Issued by:<\/p>\n<p>Limpopo Department of Transport and Community Safety<\/p>\n<p>Truck and Freight&#8230;<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/news.aspx?s=1&#038;i=77697&#038;page=an-abnormal-vehicle-has-experienced-a-mechanical-breakdown-disrupting-traffic-on-the-r521\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on Arrive Alive <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Limpopo Department of Transport and Community Safety advises motorists of a traffic disruption on the R521, approximately 5km before Vivo. An abnormal vehicle has experienced a mechanical breakdown, resulting in the closure of the left northbound lane. Traffic officers are on scene managing traffic flow. The closure is anticipated to remain in effect overnight. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":47369,"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\/724598005_1524814676352970_576104202369867335_n.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2149],"tags":[339],"class_list":["post-47368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-accidents","tag-limpopo"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/\/ckfinder\/userfiles\/images\/724598005_1524814676352970_576104202369867335_n.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47368","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=47368"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47368\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}