{"id":56049,"date":"2026-08-31T07:26:26","date_gmt":"2026-08-31T05:26:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/motor-vehicle-collision-leaves-drivers-and-passengers-miraculously-mostly-only-slightly-injured-paarl\/"},"modified":"2026-08-31T07:26:26","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T05:26:26","slug":"motor-vehicle-collision-leaves-drivers-and-passengers-miraculously-mostly-only-slightly-injured-paarl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/motor-vehicle-collision-leaves-drivers-and-passengers-miraculously-mostly-only-slightly-injured-paarl\/","title":{"rendered":"Motor vehicle collision leaves drivers and passengers miraculously mostly only slightly injured, Paarl"},"content":{"rendered":"

This afternoon, an elderly couple in their vehicle collided with a young man and his vehicle right at the Engen petrol station opposite Drakenstein Mall lustigan pad Paarl.<\/p>\n

2 DFW emergency first aid and fire responder teams arrived within 8 minutes, secured the scene and took care of the patients. Despite the impact, clearly visible on both vehicles, the patients only were bandaged for minor injuries and the Ambulance was cancelled.<\/p>\n

Police and towing services arrived later and the vehicles were towed.<\/p>\n

The importance of the DFW as a Non Profit and Public Benefit Organisation becomes more and more clear. <\/p>\n

These accident responses are done by DFW volunteers, on a Pro Bono bases as long as budget allows.<\/p>\n

We thank Ricardo Green, Anthea Carlse and Daan vlb for their adequate assistance..<\/p>\n

We wish all involved a speedy full recovery.<\/p>\n

DFW Fire&Rescue npc
\n084 752 8120
\nDrakensteinfw@gmail.com…<\/p>\n

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This afternoon, an elderly couple in their vehicle collided with a young man and his vehicle right at the Engen petrol station opposite Drakenstein Mall lustigan pad Paarl. 2 DFW emergency first aid and fire responder teams arrived within 8 minutes, secured the scene and took care of the patients. Despite the impact, clearly visible […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":56050,"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\/789595115_2256060828546095_7178637251784423627_n.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2149],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-accidents"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/ckfinder\/userfiles\/images\/789595115_2256060828546095_7178637251784423627_n.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56049","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=56049"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56049\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}