{"id":55722,"date":"2026-08-11T05:42:40","date_gmt":"2026-08-11T03:42:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/a-57-year-old-passenger-was-killed-in-a-hit-and-run-after-the-vehicle-he-was-travelling-in-stopped-for-him-to-urinate-on-jabu-ngcobo-road-in-the-vicinity-of-fairview-drive-in-brindhaven\/"},"modified":"2026-08-11T05:42:40","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T03:42:40","slug":"a-57-year-old-passenger-was-killed-in-a-hit-and-run-after-the-vehicle-he-was-travelling-in-stopped-for-him-to-urinate-on-jabu-ngcobo-road-in-the-vicinity-of-fairview-drive-in-brindhaven","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/a-57-year-old-passenger-was-killed-in-a-hit-and-run-after-the-vehicle-he-was-travelling-in-stopped-for-him-to-urinate-on-jabu-ngcobo-road-in-the-vicinity-of-fairview-drive-in-brindhaven\/","title":{"rendered":"A 57-year-old passenger was killed in a hit-and-run after the vehicle he was travelling in stopped for him to urinate on Jabu Ngcobo Road in the vicinity of Fairview Drive in Brindhaven"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 57-year-old passenger was killed in a hit-and-run after the vehicle he was travelling in stopped for him to urinate on Jabu Ngcobo Road in the vicinity of Fairview Drive in Brindhaven &#8211; KZN yesterday (Sunday, 09\/08\/2026).<\/p>\n<p>The Reaction Unit South Africa (RUSA) Operations Centre received a call for assistance at approximately 21:36. On arrival, Reaction Officers located the man lying on the roadway. He was declared deceased on scene.<\/p>\n<p>According to two (2) relatives travelling with him, their silver Toyota Corolla stopped on the side of the road while proceeding towards Trenance Park &#8211; KZN. The deceased exited the vehicle to urinate when he was struck by an unknown white double cab bakkie.<\/p>\n<p>The driver of the bakkie failed to stop and fled the scene. The registration and model of the vehicle are unknown&#8230;<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/news.aspx?s=1&#038;i=78250&#038;page=a-57-year-old-passenger-was-killed-in-a-hit-and-run-after-the-vehicle-he-was-travelling-in-stopped-for-him-to-urinate-on-jabu-ngcobo-road-in-the-vicinity-of-fairview-drive-in-brindhaven\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on Arrive Alive <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 57-year-old passenger was killed in a hit-and-run after the vehicle he was travelling in stopped for him to urinate on Jabu Ngcobo Road in the vicinity of Fairview Drive in Brindhaven &#8211; KZN yesterday (Sunday, 09\/08\/2026). The Reaction Unit South Africa (RUSA) Operations Centre received a call for assistance at approximately 21:36. On arrival, [&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":[66,2152],"class_list":["post-55722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-accidents","tag-kwazulu-natal","tag-kzn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55722","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=55722"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55722\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}