{"id":47379,"date":"2026-06-16T12:42:28","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T10:42:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/eight-killed-in-minibus-taxi-and-truck-collision-on-n4-near-waterval-onder\/"},"modified":"2026-06-16T12:42:28","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T10:42:28","slug":"eight-killed-in-minibus-taxi-and-truck-collision-on-n4-near-waterval-onder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/eight-killed-in-minibus-taxi-and-truck-collision-on-n4-near-waterval-onder\/","title":{"rendered":"Eight killed in minibus taxi and truck collision on N4 near Waterval Onder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Eight people were killed on Tuesday morning, 16 June 2026, when a minibus taxi and a truck collided on the N4 Toll Road between Ngodwana and Waterval Onder, towards Waterval Boven. One person sustained critical injuries.<\/p>\n<p>The cause of the crash is unclear at this stage. An investigation is currently underway at the scene. More details will be communicated in due course.<\/p>\n<p>Ends.<\/p>\n<p>Issued by Mpumalanga Department of Community Safety, Security and Liaison&#8230;<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/news.aspx?s=1&#038;i=77702&#038;page=eight-killed-in-minibus-taxi-and-truck-collision-on-n4-near-waterval-onder\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on Arrive Alive <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eight people were killed on Tuesday morning, 16 June 2026, when a minibus taxi and a truck collided on the N4 Toll Road between Ngodwana and Waterval Onder, towards Waterval Boven. One person sustained critical injuries. The cause of the crash is unclear at this stage. An investigation is currently underway at the scene. More [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":47380,"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\/724511017_1340106308226044_4083488598484105515_n.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2149],"tags":[313,1888,1327],"class_list":["post-47379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-accidents","tag-mpumalanga","tag-taxi","tag-taxi-accident"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/\/ckfinder\/userfiles\/images\/724511017_1340106308226044_4083488598484105515_n.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47379","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=47379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47379\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}