{"id":47761,"date":"2026-07-12T15:14:22","date_gmt":"2026-07-12T13:14:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/head-on-collision-leaves-two-vehicles-damaged-oakford-kzn\/"},"modified":"2026-07-12T15:14:22","modified_gmt":"2026-07-12T13:14:22","slug":"head-on-collision-leaves-two-vehicles-damaged-oakford-kzn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/head-on-collision-leaves-two-vehicles-damaged-oakford-kzn\/","title":{"rendered":"Head-On Collision Leaves Two Vehicles Damaged: Oakford &#8211; KZN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two (2) vehicles were extensively damaged in a head on collision on Oakford Road in Oakford &#8211; KZN this evening (Saturday).<\/p>\n<p>The Reaction Unit South Africa (RUSA) Operations Centre received a call for assistance at approximately 19:08. Reaction Officers were immediately dispatched and on arrival, found a Toyota Hilux bakkie and a navy blue Mercedes-Benz involved in the crash. <\/p>\n<p>One (1) of the vehicles left the roadway and came to a stop in nearby bushes. Details leading up to the crash were not immediately established. <\/p>\n<p>Both drivers were not injured<br \/>\nHead-On Collision Leaves Two Vehicles Damaged: Oakford &#8211; KZNhttps:\/\/t.co\/PETEX0j9Ah#ArriveAlive #HeadOnCrash pic.twitter.com\/si8OHCOpVI&mdash; Arrive Alive (@_ArriveAlive) July 12, 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=77931&#038;page=head-on-collision-leaves-two-vehicles-damaged-oakford-kzn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on Arrive Alive <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two (2) vehicles were extensively damaged in a head on collision on Oakford Road in Oakford &#8211; KZN this evening (Saturday). The Reaction Unit South Africa (RUSA) Operations Centre received a call for assistance at approximately 19:08. Reaction Officers were immediately dispatched and on arrival, found a Toyota Hilux bakkie and a navy blue Mercedes-Benz [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":47762,"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\/744490758_1474368191383602_3796965485565179066_n.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2149],"tags":[66,2152],"class_list":["post-47761","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\/744490758_1474368191383602_3796965485565179066_n.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47761","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=47761"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47761\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}