{"id":56185,"date":"2026-09-07T01:55:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-06T23:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/driver-injured-in-high-impact-collision-ottawa-kzn\/"},"modified":"2026-09-07T01:55:00","modified_gmt":"2026-09-06T23:55:00","slug":"driver-injured-in-high-impact-collision-ottawa-kzn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/driver-injured-in-high-impact-collision-ottawa-kzn\/","title":{"rendered":"Driver Injured In High Impact Collision: Ottawa &#8211; KZN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A driver was injured in a two (2) vehicle collision on the northbound lane of the R102 between Ottawa &amp; Verulam &#8211; KZN this afternoon (Saturday, 05\/09\/2026).<\/p>\n<p>Reaction Unit South Africa (RUSA) received the call for assistance at approximately 21:49.<\/p>\n<p>On arrival, Reaction Officers established that a grey BMW and a Mitsubishi Colt bakkie were involved in the collision. Both vehicle overturned multiple times. The BMW crossed the centre median and came to rest on the southbound lane.<\/p>\n<p>The male driver of the BMW sustained multiple injuries and was found unconscious. He was transported to hospital by Paramedics from a private ambulance service.<\/p>\n<p>The two (2) male occupants of the bakkie were not injured&#8230;.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/news.aspx?s=1&#038;i=78520&#038;page=driver-injured-in-high-impact-collision-ottawa-kzn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on Arrive Alive <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A driver was injured in a two (2) vehicle collision on the northbound lane of the R102 between Ottawa &amp; Verulam &#8211; KZN this afternoon (Saturday, 05\/09\/2026). Reaction Unit South Africa (RUSA) received the call for assistance at approximately 21:49. On arrival, Reaction Officers established that a grey BMW and a Mitsubishi Colt bakkie were [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":56186,"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\/794228656_1524196196400801_1324045482197205067_n.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2149],"tags":[66,2152],"class_list":["post-56185","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\/794228656_1524196196400801_1324045482197205067_n.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56185","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=56185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56185\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}