{"id":55929,"date":"2026-08-24T12:51:38","date_gmt":"2026-08-24T10:51:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/motorbike-crash-on-the-r25-in-the-bashewa-area-of-pretoria-east\/"},"modified":"2026-08-24T12:51:38","modified_gmt":"2026-08-24T10:51:38","slug":"motorbike-crash-on-the-r25-in-the-bashewa-area-of-pretoria-east","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/motorbike-crash-on-the-r25-in-the-bashewa-area-of-pretoria-east\/","title":{"rendered":"Motorbike crash on the R25 in the Bashewa area of Pretoria East"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just after 12:00 the Volunteer Emergency Medical Response Unit received a call for a serious motorbike accident on the R25 in the Bashewa area of Pretoria East. <\/p>\n<p>On arrival our team found 1 patient with critical injuries being stabilized by multiple Advanced Life Support paramedics and 1 patient with serious injuries being treated inside an ambulance after 2 motorcycles collided. <\/p>\n<p>Due to the extent of one patient&#039;s injuries, an aeromedical helicopter was activated to transport the patient to a specialist trauma hospital in Johannesburg. The scene was handed over to SAPS to investigate the cause of the accident.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you to Netcare911, Emer-G-Med, ER24, Gauteng Emergency Medical Services, EMS Chaplaincy and Trauma Support, and SAPS for assisting on scene.<\/p>\n<p>Volunteer Emergency Medical Response Unit (VEMRU) is a registered NPC and PBO that responds to medical and trauma emergencies for FREE.<\/p>\n<p>VEMRU is solely reliant on sponsors and donations for operational costs.<\/p>\n<p>Please&#8230;<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/news.aspx?s=1&#038;i=78379&#038;page=motorbike-crash-on-the-r25-in-the-bashewa-area-of-pretoria-east\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on Arrive Alive <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just after 12:00 the Volunteer Emergency Medical Response Unit received a call for a serious motorbike accident on the R25 in the Bashewa area of Pretoria East. On arrival our team found 1 patient with critical injuries being stabilized by multiple Advanced Life Support paramedics and 1 patient with serious injuries being treated inside an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":55930,"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\/783162358_3309613099242676_4808169399170222919_n.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2149],"tags":[164],"class_list":["post-55929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-accidents","tag-gauteng"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/ckfinder\/userfiles\/images\/783162358_3309613099242676_4808169399170222919_n.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55929","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=55929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55929\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}