{"id":47717,"date":"2026-07-09T21:02:27","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T19:02:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/motor-vehicle-collision-at-the-notorious-sonstraal-road-in-paarl\/"},"modified":"2026-07-09T21:02:27","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T19:02:27","slug":"motor-vehicle-collision-at-the-notorious-sonstraal-road-in-paarl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/motor-vehicle-collision-at-the-notorious-sonstraal-road-in-paarl\/","title":{"rendered":"Motor vehicle collision at the notorious Sonstraal road in Paarl"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A loud &quot;bang&quot; was heard at the DFW office, indicating another MVA at the notorious Sonstraal Road in Paarl.<\/p>\n<p>This time fortunately, no serious injuries, and given the state of the vehicle&#039;s conditions, that&#039;s a miracle.<\/p>\n<p>Drakenstein municipal traffic services were on scene, handling the top traffic hour with precision. Tow services from Paarlberg and JF Towing quickly cleared the road free.<\/p>\n<p>The Ambulance could &quot; stand down&quot; = stay at base, although the EMS medical rescue services attended and shared passion and intelligence with the DFW crew.<\/p>\n<p>The DFW responders work close together with EMS Metro as they also provided the extra  training to the already advanced  First aid responders of the DFW.<\/p>\n<p>We thank all for the profesional and swift response.<\/p>\n<p>DFW Fire&amp;Rescue npc<\/p>\n<p>084 752 8120<br \/>\nDrakensteinfw@gmail.com<br \/>\nWww.dfwfireandrescue.com<\/p>\n<p>Motor vehicle collision at the notorious Sonstraal road in Paarlhttps:\/\/t.co\/JiLq0sTiEA#ArriveAlive #RoadSafety&#8230;<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/news.aspx?s=1&#038;i=77915&#038;page=motor-vehicle-collision-at-the-notorious-sonstraal-road-in-paarl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on Arrive Alive <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A loud &quot;bang&quot; was heard at the DFW office, indicating another MVA at the notorious Sonstraal Road in Paarl. This time fortunately, no serious injuries, and given the state of the vehicle&#039;s conditions, that&#039;s a miracle. Drakenstein municipal traffic services were on scene, handling the top traffic hour with precision. Tow services from Paarlberg and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":47718,"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\/740601857_1607793801392318_4601487353052799167_n.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2149],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-accidents"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/\/ckfinder\/userfiles\/images\/740601857_1607793801392318_4601487353052799167_n.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47717","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=47717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47717\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}