{"id":55874,"date":"2026-08-21T12:37:20","date_gmt":"2026-08-21T10:37:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/ten-injured-as-commuter-taxi-overturns-on-airport-road-newcastle\/"},"modified":"2026-08-21T12:37:20","modified_gmt":"2026-08-21T10:37:20","slug":"ten-injured-as-commuter-taxi-overturns-on-airport-road-newcastle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/ten-injured-as-commuter-taxi-overturns-on-airport-road-newcastle\/","title":{"rendered":"Ten Injured as Commuter Taxi Overturns on Airport Road, Newcastle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At approximately 07:00 this morning, KwaZulu Private Ambulance Service responded to a collision on Airport Road near the KwaMathakuza intersection, outside Newcastle.<\/p>\n<p>On arrival, the medical team found that a taxi transporting commuters to work had lost control and overturned. Paramedics quickly assessed the scene and confirmed that ten occupants had sustained injuries ranging from serious to minor.<\/p>\n<p>Patients were treated on scene before being transported to hospital for further care. No traffic flow was affected, as the vehicle came to rest off the roadway.<\/p>\n<p>The cause of the incident remains under investigation by local traffic authorities&#8230;.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/news.aspx?s=1&#038;i=78356&#038;page=ten-injured-as-commuter-taxi-overturns-on-airport-road-newcastle\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on Arrive Alive <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At approximately 07:00 this morning, KwaZulu Private Ambulance Service responded to a collision on Airport Road near the KwaMathakuza intersection, outside Newcastle. On arrival, the medical team found that a taxi transporting commuters to work had lost control and overturned. Paramedics quickly assessed the scene and confirmed that ten occupants had sustained injuries ranging from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":55875,"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\/WhatsApp%20Image%202026-08-21%20at%2009_50_05.jpeg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2149],"tags":[1888,1327],"class_list":["post-55874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-accidents","tag-taxi","tag-taxi-accident"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/ckfinder\/userfiles\/images\/WhatsApp%20Image%202026-08-21%20at%2009_50_05.jpeg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55874","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=55874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55874\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}