{"id":56203,"date":"2026-09-07T19:58:01","date_gmt":"2026-09-07T17:58:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/vehicle-lodged-against-tree-after-crash-la-mercy-kzn\/"},"modified":"2026-09-07T19:58:01","modified_gmt":"2026-09-07T17:58:01","slug":"vehicle-lodged-against-tree-after-crash-la-mercy-kzn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/vehicle-lodged-against-tree-after-crash-la-mercy-kzn\/","title":{"rendered":"Vehicle Lodged Against Tree After Crash: La Mercy &#8211; KZN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A motorist was injured after a silver-grey Volkswagen Polo left the M4 northbound lane between Umdloti &#8211; KZN and La Mercy &#8211; KZN yesterday afternoon (Sunday, 06\/09\/2026).<\/p>\n<p>Reaction Unit South Africa (RUSA) was called out to the scene following a request for assistance.<\/p>\n<p>On arrival, the Volkswagen Polo was located in dense bushes and lodged against a tree with its lights still illuminated.<\/p>\n<p>The driver was the only occupant and was unable to explain how the accident occurred. He sustained minor injuries including open bleeding wounds and was transported privately to a medical facility.<\/p>\n<p>The Volkswagen Polo sustained extensive damage to its front and undercarriage&#8230;.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/news.aspx?s=1&#038;i=78531&#038;page=vehicle-lodged-against-tree-after-crash-la-mercy-kzn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on Arrive Alive <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A motorist was injured after a silver-grey Volkswagen Polo left the M4 northbound lane between Umdloti &#8211; KZN and La Mercy &#8211; KZN yesterday afternoon (Sunday, 06\/09\/2026). Reaction Unit South Africa (RUSA) was called out to the scene following a request for assistance. On arrival, the Volkswagen Polo was located in dense bushes and lodged [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":56204,"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\/799202532_1525679659585788_6852833819789613571_n.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2149],"tags":[66,2152],"class_list":["post-56203","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\/799202532_1525679659585788_6852833819789613571_n.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56203","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=56203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56203\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}