{"id":55731,"date":"2026-08-11T23:50:03","date_gmt":"2026-08-11T21:50:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/two-pedestrians-injured-in-collision-verulam-kzn\/"},"modified":"2026-08-11T23:50:03","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T21:50:03","slug":"two-pedestrians-injured-in-collision-verulam-kzn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/two-pedestrians-injured-in-collision-verulam-kzn\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Pedestrians Injured In Collision: Verulam &#8211; KZN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two (2) women were injured after being struck during a collision involving two (2) vehicles on Todd Street in Verulam &#8211; KZN this morning (Tuesday, 11\/08\/2026).<\/p>\n<p>At approximately 06:20, members of Reaction Unit South Africa (RUSA) were flagged down by the public requesting assistance. Upon investigation, Officers located two (2) damaged vehicles and two (2) injured pedestrians.<\/p>\n<p>According to the driver of a white Toyota Tazz, he was travelling towards the Verulam CBD &#8211; KZN when he attempted to overtake a white Volkswagen Polo Vivo. The Toyota Tazz struck the front-right side of the VW Polo before veering onto the pavement and knocking down the two (2) women.<\/p>\n<p>One (1) pedestrian sustained injuries to her leg and head as well as internal injuries. The second woman suffered leg injuries.<\/p>\n<p>Paramedics treated both pedestrians on scene before transporting them to hospital for further medical care&#8230;.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/news.aspx?s=1&#038;i=78263&#038;page=two-pedestrians-injured-in-collision-verulam-kzn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on Arrive Alive <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two (2) women were injured after being struck during a collision involving two (2) vehicles on Todd Street in Verulam &#8211; KZN this morning (Tuesday, 11\/08\/2026). At approximately 06:20, members of Reaction Unit South Africa (RUSA) were flagged down by the public requesting assistance. Upon investigation, Officers located two (2) damaged vehicles and two (2) [&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-55731","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\/55731","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=55731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55731\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}