{"id":56216,"date":"2026-09-08T08:00:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-08T06:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/victims-treated-after-a-motor-vehicle-collision-at-the-r24-and-r30-turn-off\/"},"modified":"2026-09-08T08:00:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-08T06:00:08","slug":"victims-treated-after-a-motor-vehicle-collision-at-the-r24-and-r30-turn-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/victims-treated-after-a-motor-vehicle-collision-at-the-r24-and-r30-turn-off\/","title":{"rendered":"Victims treated after a motor vehicle collision at the R24 and R30 turn-off"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At approximately 20:10 on Saturday evening, 5 September 2026, Rustenburg First Responders volunteers received a call reporting a motor vehicle accident at the R24 and R30 turn-off, with initial information indicating that two patients were entrapped.<\/p>\n<p>Rustenburg First Responders volunteers, together with ResMed Emergency Medical Services, other private ambulance services, and Fire and Rescue teams, were immediately dispatched to the scene to provide emergency medical assistance and support the rescue operation.<\/p>\n<p>Upon arrival, our volunteers, together with the Advanced Life Support (ALS) ambulance crew from ResMed EMS, found multiple injured patients. One patient had sustained severe injuries and required advanced medical intervention. The ResMed ALS paramedic immediately intervened and provided critical emergency medical treatment and advanced life support.<\/p>\n<p>The patient was treated and stabilised on scene before being transported to Medicare Private Hospital for further medical treatment&#8230;<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/news.aspx?s=1&#038;i=78533&#038;page=victims-treated-after-a-motor-vehicle-collision-at-the-r24-and-r30-turn-off\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on Arrive Alive <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At approximately 20:10 on Saturday evening, 5 September 2026, Rustenburg First Responders volunteers received a call reporting a motor vehicle accident at the R24 and R30 turn-off, with initial information indicating that two patients were entrapped. Rustenburg First Responders volunteers, together with ResMed Emergency Medical Services, other private ambulance services, and Fire and Rescue teams, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":56217,"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\/799676840_1959087658094212_1467562565502587078_n.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2149],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-accidents"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/ckfinder\/userfiles\/images\/799676840_1959087658094212_1467562565502587078_n.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56216","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=56216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56216\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}