{"id":47614,"date":"2026-06-29T02:05:04","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T00:05:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/vehicle-leaves-road-crashes-into-tree-waterloo-kzn\/"},"modified":"2026-06-29T02:05:04","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T00:05:04","slug":"vehicle-leaves-road-crashes-into-tree-waterloo-kzn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/vehicle-leaves-road-crashes-into-tree-waterloo-kzn\/","title":{"rendered":"Vehicle Leaves Road &amp; Crashes Into Tree: Waterloo \u2013 KZN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At approximately 19:55 on Saturday (27\/06\/2026), a vehicle left the M27 and crashed into a tree near Phase 6 in Waterloo &#8211; KZN after the driver reportedly lost control while negotiating a bend.<\/p>\n<p>Members of Reaction Unit South Africa (RUSA) were called out to the scene after the Operations Centre received reports of a motor vehicle accident. Upon arrival, Reaction Officers located a red Renault Kwid that had left the roadway and come to rest against a tree in dense vegetation off the M27.<\/p>\n<p>The Renault Kwid sustained extensive damage to the front end, left front side, windscreen and roof.<\/p>\n<p>The driver was not injured and declined medical assistance.<\/p>\n<p>Vehicle Leaves Road &amp; Crashes Into Tree: Waterloo \u2013 KZNhttps:\/\/t.co\/BgfzOg5UNN#ArriveAlive #RoadSafety pic.twitter.com\/QTQxEuXiYG&mdash; Arrive Alive (@_ArriveAlive) June 28, 2026&#8230;<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/news.aspx?s=1&#038;i=77820&#038;page=vehicle-leaves-road-and-crashes-into-tree-waterloo-kzn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on Arrive Alive <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At approximately 19:55 on Saturday (27\/06\/2026), a vehicle left the M27 and crashed into a tree near Phase 6 in Waterloo &#8211; KZN after the driver reportedly lost control while negotiating a bend. Members of Reaction Unit South Africa (RUSA) were called out to the scene after the Operations Centre received reports of a motor [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":47615,"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\/731898536_1462573262563095_4675241648607491163_n.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2149],"tags":[66,2152],"class_list":["post-47614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-accidents","tag-kwazulu-natal","tag-kzn"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/\/ckfinder\/userfiles\/images\/731898536_1462573262563095_4675241648607491163_n.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47614","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=47614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47614\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}