{"id":55857,"date":"2026-08-20T18:34:22","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T16:34:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/two-injured-in-a-collision-at-an-intersection-in-verulam-kzn\/"},"modified":"2026-08-20T18:34:22","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T16:34:22","slug":"two-injured-in-a-collision-at-an-intersection-in-verulam-kzn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/two-injured-in-a-collision-at-an-intersection-in-verulam-kzn\/","title":{"rendered":"Two injured in a collision at an intersection in Verulam \u2013 KZN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two (2) people were injured in a collision in Grangetown &ndash; KZN today (Thursday).<\/p>\n<p>The incident occurred at the George Sewpersadh Street and Russom Street. A white Isuzu single-cab bakkie collided with a white Toyota Starlet.<\/p>\n<p>The bakkie driver stated that he was travelling from the Verulam CBD towards Missionlands. He explained that he yielded, checked that both sides were clear and proceeded across the intersection without coming to a complete stop.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, the Toyota Starlet also failed to stop, resulting in the Isuzu colliding with the front right side of the light motor vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>The Toyota Starlet driver disputed his version and stated that she had stopped at the stop street. She alleged that the bakkie was speeding and failed to stop before colliding with her vehicle. Neither version could be immediately verified by Reaction Officers. <\/p>\n<p>The driver and one (1) passenger from the Toyota Starlet sustained minor injuries. They were treated at the scene by Reaction&#8230;<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/news.aspx?s=1&#038;i=78349&#038;page=two-injured-in-a-collision-at-an-intersection-in-verulam-kzn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on Arrive Alive <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two (2) people were injured in a collision in Grangetown &ndash; KZN today (Thursday). The incident occurred at the George Sewpersadh Street and Russom Street. A white Isuzu single-cab bakkie collided with a white Toyota Starlet. The bakkie driver stated that he was travelling from the Verulam CBD towards Missionlands. He explained that he yielded, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":55858,"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\/780255764_1509377297882691_3136931108332944978_n.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2149],"tags":[66,2152],"class_list":["post-55857","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\/780255764_1509377297882691_3136931108332944978_n.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55857","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=55857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55857\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}