{"id":47923,"date":"2026-07-21T09:51:40","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T07:51:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/one-person-has-been-left-in-a-critical-condition-following-a-serious-two-vehicle-collision-along-the-m41-travelling-towards-phoenix-from-umhlanga\/"},"modified":"2026-07-21T09:51:40","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T07:51:40","slug":"one-person-has-been-left-in-a-critical-condition-following-a-serious-two-vehicle-collision-along-the-m41-travelling-towards-phoenix-from-umhlanga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/one-person-has-been-left-in-a-critical-condition-following-a-serious-two-vehicle-collision-along-the-m41-travelling-towards-phoenix-from-umhlanga\/","title":{"rendered":"One person has been left in a critical condition following a serious two-vehicle collision along the M41, travelling towards Phoenix from Umhlanga"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One person has been left in a critical condition following a serious two vehicle collision along the M41, travelling towards Phoenix from Umhlanga, on Monday evening.<\/p>\n<p>KZN VIP Emergency Medical Services responded to multiple requests for assistance. Upon arrival, paramedics found two vehicles that had sustained extensive damage. One of the vehicles had overturned and left the roadway, leaving the driver trapped inside the wreckage.<\/p>\n<p>Following an initial assessment, the Fire Department and KZN VIP Advanced Life Support (ALS) medics were immediately requested to the scene. Working together, emergency personnel carefully extricated the critically injured patient from the wreckage.<\/p>\n<p>The patient was stabilised under Advanced Life Support care before being transported urgently to a nearby medical facility for further specialised treatment.<\/p>\n<p>The circumstances leading up to the collision cannot be confirmed at this stage and remain subject to investigation.<\/p>\n<p>The M41 was closed for a period&#8230;<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/news.aspx?s=1&#038;i=78023&#038;page=one-person-has-been-left-in-a-critical-condition-following-a-serious-two-vehicle-collision-along-the-m41-travelling-towards-phoenix-from-umhlanga\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on Arrive Alive <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One person has been left in a critical condition following a serious two vehicle collision along the M41, travelling towards Phoenix from Umhlanga, on Monday evening. KZN VIP Emergency Medical Services responded to multiple requests for assistance. Upon arrival, paramedics found two vehicles that had sustained extensive damage. One of the vehicles had overturned and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":47924,"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\/750665655_975397835514560_4380862113165824779_n.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2149],"tags":[66,2152],"class_list":["post-47923","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\/750665655_975397835514560_4380862113165824779_n.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47923","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=47923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47923\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}