{"id":47669,"date":"2026-07-02T20:27:46","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T18:27:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/transport-ministers-expressed-their-condolences-to-the-bereaved-families-who-lost-their-loved-ones-due-to-a-bus-road-crash-where-16-lives-were-lost\/"},"modified":"2026-07-02T20:27:46","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T18:27:46","slug":"transport-ministers-expressed-their-condolences-to-the-bereaved-families-who-lost-their-loved-ones-due-to-a-bus-road-crash-where-16-lives-were-lost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/transport-ministers-expressed-their-condolences-to-the-bereaved-families-who-lost-their-loved-ones-due-to-a-bus-road-crash-where-16-lives-were-lost\/","title":{"rendered":"Transport Ministers expressed their condolences to the bereaved families who lost their loved ones due to a bus road crash where 16 lives were lost"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Minister of Transport, Ms. Barbara Creecy, and Transport Deputy Minister, Mr. Mkhuleko Hlengwa have expressed their condolences to the bereaved families who lost their loved ones due to a bus road crash where 16 lives were lost. The crash occurred in the early hours of Thursday 2 July 2026 on the N1 at Gulfstream Garage, Western Cape. <\/p>\n<p>According to the reports, the crash involved a bus transporting 78 passengers including children from Cape Town to Idutywa, Eastern Cape. <\/p>\n<p>It is alleged that the bus overturned resulting in 16 fatalities and 20 occupants sustaining injuries. Those injured were transported to Worcester Hospital and 43 occupants refused medical treatment.  <\/p>\n<p>Creecy and Hlengwa have wished a swift recovery to all those who sustained injuries. They have also directed the RAF to assist the bereaved families and those injured with the necessary support <\/p>\n<p>Creecy and Hlengwa have also directed the RTMC to investigate the cause of the crash working together with local&#8230;<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/news.aspx?s=1&#038;i=77855&#038;page=transport-ministers-expressed-their-condolences-to-the-bereaved-families-who-lost-their-loved-ones-due-to-a-bus-road-crash-where-16-lives-were-lost\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on Arrive Alive <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Minister of Transport, Ms. Barbara Creecy, and Transport Deputy Minister, Mr. Mkhuleko Hlengwa have expressed their condolences to the bereaved families who lost their loved ones due to a bus road crash where 16 lives were lost. The crash occurred in the early hours of Thursday 2 July 2026 on the N1 at Gulfstream [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":47670,"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\/Screenshot%202026-07-02%20114408.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2149],"tags":[2150,2151,99,310],"class_list":["post-47669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-accidents","tag-bus","tag-bus-accident","tag-eastern-cape","tag-western-cape"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/\/ckfinder\/userfiles\/images\/Screenshot%202026-07-02%20114408.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47669","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=47669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47669\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}