{"id":47594,"date":"2026-06-27T19:35:38","date_gmt":"2026-06-27T17:35:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/horrific-head-on-collision-on-the-r61-near-cicira\/"},"modified":"2026-06-27T19:35:38","modified_gmt":"2026-06-27T17:35:38","slug":"horrific-head-on-collision-on-the-r61-near-cicira","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/horrific-head-on-collision-on-the-r61-near-cicira\/","title":{"rendered":"Horrific Head-on Collision on the R61 near Cicira"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Paramedics arrived on the scene to find chaos and carnage. Paramedics found that a truck and a light motor vehicle had collided head on before the truck overturned. Paramedics from EMS and ALS Paramedics assessed the scene and found two occupants in the light motor vehicle a Male and a Female had sustained major injuries and unfortunately there was nothing Paramedics could do for them and they were declared deceased on the scene. The truck driver sustained no injuries.<\/p>\n<p>Traffic was severely affected in the area.<\/p>\n<p>At this stage the events leading up to the crash is unknown however SAPS were in attendance and will be investigating further&#8230;<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/news.aspx?s=1&#038;i=77811&#038;page=horrific-head-on-collision-on-the-r61-near-cicira\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on Arrive Alive <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paramedics arrived on the scene to find chaos and carnage. Paramedics found that a truck and a light motor vehicle had collided head on before the truck overturned. Paramedics from EMS and ALS Paramedics assessed the scene and found two occupants in the light motor vehicle a Male and a Female had sustained major injuries [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":47595,"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\/733692657_1483888143754413_8644659025129351353_n.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2149],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-accidents"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/\/ckfinder\/userfiles\/images\/733692657_1483888143754413_8644659025129351353_n.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47594","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=47594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47594\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}