{"id":56153,"date":"2026-09-05T13:48:41","date_gmt":"2026-09-05T11:48:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/car-crashes-over-ditch-tongaat-kzn\/"},"modified":"2026-09-05T13:48:41","modified_gmt":"2026-09-05T11:48:41","slug":"car-crashes-over-ditch-tongaat-kzn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/car-crashes-over-ditch-tongaat-kzn\/","title":{"rendered":"Car Crashes Over Ditch: Tongaat \u2013 KZN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At approximately 08:59 today (Saturday, 05\/09\/2026), members of Reaction Unit South Africa (RUSA) were dispatched to Watson Highway in Tongaat &ndash; KZN following reports of a single vehicle accident.<\/p>\n<p>On arrival, Reaction Officers discovered a green Hyundai Exter lying on its side in the bushes after it had left the roadway and crossed a ditch. A roadside barrier was damaged during the accident.<\/p>\n<p>The driver was travelling from Westbrook towards Tongaat &#8211; KZN when she lost control of the vehicle. <\/p>\n<p>The South African Police Service (SAPS), Firefighters, Metro Police and a towing service were in attendance&#8230;.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/news.aspx?s=1&#038;i=78518&#038;page=car-crashes-over-ditch-tongaat-kzn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on Arrive Alive <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At approximately 08:59 today (Saturday, 05\/09\/2026), members of Reaction Unit South Africa (RUSA) were dispatched to Watson Highway in Tongaat &ndash; KZN following reports of a single vehicle accident. On arrival, Reaction Officers discovered a green Hyundai Exter lying on its side in the bushes after it had left the roadway and crossed a ditch. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":56154,"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\/796388566_1523702363116851_7182545933406367517_n.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2149],"tags":[66,2152],"class_list":["post-56153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-accidents","tag-kwazulu-natal","tag-kzn"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/ckfinder\/userfiles\/images\/796388566_1523702363116851_7182545933406367517_n.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56153","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=56153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56153\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}