{"id":56005,"date":"2026-08-28T13:13:29","date_gmt":"2026-08-28T11:13:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/motorists-are-advised-to-avoid-the-r36-at-mafafula-bridge-near-at-pet-following-a-collision-involving-a-truck-and-a-bakkie\/"},"modified":"2026-08-28T13:13:29","modified_gmt":"2026-08-28T11:13:29","slug":"motorists-are-advised-to-avoid-the-r36-at-mafafula-bridge-near-at-pet-following-a-collision-involving-a-truck-and-a-bakkie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/motorists-are-advised-to-avoid-the-r36-at-mafafula-bridge-near-at-pet-following-a-collision-involving-a-truck-and-a-bakkie\/","title":{"rendered":"Motorists are advised to avoid the R36 at Mafafula Bridge near At-Pet following a collision involving a truck and a bakkie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Motorists are advised to avoid the R36 at Mafafula Bridge near At-Pet following a collision involving a truck and a bakkie.<\/p>\n<p>Traffic is currently backed up in the area, with emergency services already on scene attending to injured people.<\/p>\n<p>The R36 will be temporarily closed while emergency teams manage the situation and clear the scene.<\/p>\n<p>Motorists are urged to use the Vembek Road as an alternative route until further notice.<\/p>\n<p>Please drive with caution and allow extra travel time&#8230;.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/news.aspx?s=1&#038;i=78425&#038;page=motorists-are-advised-to-avoid-the-r36-at-mafafula-bridge-near-at-pet-following-a-collision-involving-a-truck-and-a-bakkie\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on Arrive Alive <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Motorists are advised to avoid the R36 at Mafafula Bridge near At-Pet following a collision involving a truck and a bakkie. Traffic is currently backed up in the area, with emergency services already on scene attending to injured people. The R36 will be temporarily closed while emergency teams manage the situation and clear the scene. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":56006,"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\/788414112_1556402538754773_4333844870981814458_n.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2149],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-accidents"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/ckfinder\/userfiles\/images\/788414112_1556402538754773_4333844870981814458_n.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56005","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=56005"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56005\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}