{"id":55882,"date":"2026-08-22T00:38:44","date_gmt":"2026-08-21T22:38:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/tongaat-n2-northbound-taxi-driver-loses-control-leaving-one-dead\/"},"modified":"2026-08-22T00:38:44","modified_gmt":"2026-08-21T22:38:44","slug":"tongaat-n2-northbound-taxi-driver-loses-control-leaving-one-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/tongaat-n2-northbound-taxi-driver-loses-control-leaving-one-dead\/","title":{"rendered":"Tongaat, N2 Northbound &#8211; taxi driver loses control leaving one dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Friday afternoon, IPSS Medical Rescue, IPSS S&amp;R, Kwadukuza Fire Department, SAPS and RTI responded to taxi accident on the N2 Northbound between Tongaat and Ballito.<\/p>\n<p>A fully laden taxi had lost control, rolling and ejected several passengers, leaving 4 critically injured.<\/p>\n<p>The critically injured patients, including a 3 year old toddler, were stabilised on scene by IPSS Medical Rescue Advanced Life Support Paramedics, before being transported to a suitable facility in Durban.<\/p>\n<p>A further 10 passengers sustained injuries from minor to serious, and were treated by various services on scene before being transported to a nearby facility for further care.<\/p>\n<p>Sadly, one occupant sustained fatal injuries and was declared deceased on scene.<\/p>\n<p>Our condolences go out to the friends &amp; family of the deceased. <\/p>\n<p>0823 911 911&#8230;<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/news.aspx?s=1&#038;i=78361&#038;page=tongaat-n2-northbound-taxi-driver-loses-control-leaving-one-dead\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on Arrive Alive <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Friday afternoon, IPSS Medical Rescue, IPSS S&amp;R, Kwadukuza Fire Department, SAPS and RTI responded to taxi accident on the N2 Northbound between Tongaat and Ballito. A fully laden taxi had lost control, rolling and ejected several passengers, leaving 4 critically injured. The critically injured patients, including a 3 year old toddler, were stabilised on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":55883,"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\/783013788_1794003588625808_3523341559838916176_n.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2149],"tags":[1888,1327],"class_list":["post-55882","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\/783013788_1794003588625808_3523341559838916176_n.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55882","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=55882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55882\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}