{"id":56306,"date":"2026-09-12T09:56:12","date_gmt":"2026-09-12T07:56:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/collision-with-chemical-laden-trailer-umhlanga-kzn\/"},"modified":"2026-09-12T09:56:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-12T07:56:12","slug":"collision-with-chemical-laden-trailer-umhlanga-kzn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/collision-with-chemical-laden-trailer-umhlanga-kzn\/","title":{"rendered":"Collision With Chemical-Laden Trailer: Umhlanga &#8211; KZN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A black Audi S7 Sportback was extensively damaged in a collision on the N2 before the Umhlanga, KwaZulu-Natal off-ramp last night (Friday, 11\/09\/2026).<\/p>\n<p>Members of Reaction Unit South Africa (RUSA) arrived on scene at approximately 20:31. It was established that the Audi S7 Sportback had collided with a trailer being towed by a white Mahindra Scorpio.<\/p>\n<p>The Audi S7 Sportback sustained extensive damage to its front and engine compartment and was believed to be beyond repair. The trailer was transporting an unidentified chemical reportedly used for cleaning tiles.<\/p>\n<p>No injuries were reported<br \/>\nCollision With Chemical-Laden Trailer: Umhlanga &#8211; KZNhttps:\/\/t.co\/tZD9BujhF1#ArriveAlive #Trailer #RUSA pic.twitter.com\/7GHoiV6uHO&mdash; Arrive Alive (@_ArriveAlive) September 12, 2026&#8230;<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/news.aspx?s=1&#038;i=78587&#038;page=collision-with-chemical-laden-trailer-umhlanga-kzn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on Arrive Alive <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A black Audi S7 Sportback was extensively damaged in a collision on the N2 before the Umhlanga, KwaZulu-Natal off-ramp last night (Friday, 11\/09\/2026). Members of Reaction Unit South Africa (RUSA) arrived on scene at approximately 20:31. It was established that the Audi S7 Sportback had collided with a trailer being towed by a white Mahindra [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":56307,"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\/806474190_1623805376126528_3844384127628424781_n.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2149],"tags":[66,2152],"class_list":["post-56306","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\/806474190_1623805376126528_3844384127628424781_n.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56306","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=56306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56306\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}