{"id":47409,"date":"2026-06-18T00:48:21","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T22:48:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/pedestrian-vehicle-accident-involving-a-critically-injured-patient-on-the-r21\/"},"modified":"2026-06-18T00:48:21","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T22:48:21","slug":"pedestrian-vehicle-accident-involving-a-critically-injured-patient-on-the-r21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/pedestrian-vehicle-accident-involving-a-critically-injured-patient-on-the-r21\/","title":{"rendered":"Pedestrian\u2013vehicle accident involving a critically injured patient on the R21"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Multiple emergency medical services attended the scene of a pedestrian&ndash;vehicle accident involving a critically injured patient.<\/p>\n<p>Upon arrival, an ALS practitioner from  Emer-G-Med EMS was already providing advanced medical care. <\/p>\n<p>Shortly thereafter, an ambulance from Emergency Medical Solutions arrived on scene to assist.<\/p>\n<p>A team of five practitioners, including three ALS providers, worked together to assess, treat, and stabilise the patient. The patient sustained multiple serious injuries, including a fractured femur, a fractured arm, and a significant head injury.<\/p>\n<p>Following successful stabilisation, the patient was carefully loaded into the ambulance and transported to hospital for further definitive care. <\/p>\n<p>The receiving facility was notified in advance to ensure preparations were in place for the arrival of the critically injured patient.<\/p>\n<p>We would like to acknowledge the excellent teamwork and cooperation displayed by all services on scene, ensuring the patient&#8230;<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/news.aspx?s=1&#038;i=77718&#038;page=pedestrian-vehicle-accident-involving-a-critically-injured-patient-on-the-r21\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on Arrive Alive <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Multiple emergency medical services attended the scene of a pedestrian&ndash;vehicle accident involving a critically injured patient. Upon arrival, an ALS practitioner from Emer-G-Med EMS was already providing advanced medical care. Shortly thereafter, an ambulance from Emergency Medical Solutions arrived on scene to assist. A team of five practitioners, including three ALS providers, worked together to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":47410,"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\/724558833_122187948908596882_429750288496684055_n.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2149],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-accidents"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/\/ckfinder\/userfiles\/images\/724558833_122187948908596882_429750288496684055_n.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47409","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=47409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47409\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}