{"id":55785,"date":"2026-08-16T06:11:33","date_gmt":"2026-08-16T04:11:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/bakkie-collides-head-on-with-suv-brindhaven-kzn\/"},"modified":"2026-08-16T06:11:33","modified_gmt":"2026-08-16T04:11:33","slug":"bakkie-collides-head-on-with-suv-brindhaven-kzn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/bakkie-collides-head-on-with-suv-brindhaven-kzn\/","title":{"rendered":"Bakkie collides head-on with SUV: Brindhaven &#8211; KZN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two (2) motorists escaped injury following a head-on collision at the corner of Everest Lane and Fairview Drive in Brindhaven, Verulam &#8211; KZN today (Saturday, 15\/08\/2026).<\/p>\n<p>Members of Reaction Unit South Africa (RUSA) arrived at the scene and located a blue Hyundai Tucson and a red Nissan Hardbody double cab bakkie.<\/p>\n<p>According to the 56-year-old driver of the Hyundai Tucson, he was approaching the stop street on Everest Lane and intended turning right onto Fairview Drive.<\/p>\n<p>A red Nissan Hardbody travelling on Fairview Drive turned right into Everest Lane. The Hyundai Tucson driver alleged that the bakkie was travelling at high speed and failed to remain in its lane while turning, resulting in the vehicles colliding head-on.<\/p>\n<p>The 21-year-old driver of the Nissan Hardbody did not dispute his version of events.<\/p>\n<p>No injuries were reported&#8230;.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/news.aspx?s=1&#038;i=78301&#038;page=bakkie-collides-head-on-with-suv-brindhaven-kzn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on Arrive Alive <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two (2) motorists escaped injury following a head-on collision at the corner of Everest Lane and Fairview Drive in Brindhaven, Verulam &#8211; KZN today (Saturday, 15\/08\/2026). Members of Reaction Unit South Africa (RUSA) arrived at the scene and located a blue Hyundai Tucson and a red Nissan Hardbody double cab bakkie. According to the 56-year-old [&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-55785","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\/55785","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=55785"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55785\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}