{"id":55576,"date":"2026-08-03T05:01:18","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T03:01:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/driver-escapes-injury-after-train-collides-with-broken-down-bakkie-at-level-crossing-in-the-cornfields-area-near-estcourt\/"},"modified":"2026-08-03T05:01:18","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T03:01:18","slug":"driver-escapes-injury-after-train-collides-with-broken-down-bakkie-at-level-crossing-in-the-cornfields-area-near-estcourt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/driver-escapes-injury-after-train-collides-with-broken-down-bakkie-at-level-crossing-in-the-cornfields-area-near-estcourt\/","title":{"rendered":"Driver escapes injury after train collides with broken down bakkie at level crossing in the Cornfields area near Estcourt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A driver had a narrow escape after a bakkie broke down on a railway level crossing moments before it was struck by an oncoming train in the Cornfields area near Estcourt on Friday afternoon, 31 July.<\/p>\n<p>Information from the scene, the bakkie stalled while crossing the railway line. As a train approached, the driver managed to exit the vehicle safely before the train collided with it.<\/p>\n<p>No injuries were reported.<\/p>\n<p>Emergency services and law enforcement officials responded to the incident. Midway Road Traffic Inspectorate (RTI), Colenso SAPS, ER24 and Jes Towing were on the scene to assist and manage the aftermath of the collision.<\/p>\n<p>Ladysmith Herald&#8230;<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/news.aspx?s=1&#038;i=78160&#038;page=driver-escapes-injury-after-train-collides-with-broken-down-bakkie-at-level-crossing-in-the-cornfields-area-near-estcourt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on Arrive Alive <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A driver had a narrow escape after a bakkie broke down on a railway level crossing moments before it was struck by an oncoming train in the Cornfields area near Estcourt on Friday afternoon, 31 July. Information from the scene, the bakkie stalled while crossing the railway line. As a train approached, the driver managed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2149],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-accidents"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55576","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=55576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55576\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}