{"id":56357,"date":"2026-09-14T20:00:07","date_gmt":"2026-09-14T18:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/minister-creecy-and-deputy-minister-hlengwa-express-their-condolences-following-two-major-road-crashes\/"},"modified":"2026-09-14T20:00:07","modified_gmt":"2026-09-14T18:00:07","slug":"minister-creecy-and-deputy-minister-hlengwa-express-their-condolences-following-two-major-road-crashes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/minister-creecy-and-deputy-minister-hlengwa-express-their-condolences-following-two-major-road-crashes\/","title":{"rendered":"Minister Creecy and Deputy Minister Hlengwa express their condolences following two major road crashes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Minister of Transport, Ms. Barbara Creecy, and Transport Deputy Minister, Mr. Mkhuleko Hlengwa, have expressed their condolences and deepest sympathies to the bereaved families who lost their loved ones in two major road crashes in Mpumalanga and Western Cape Provinces.<\/p>\n<p>This morning a major crash occurred at approximately 00:30 on the N1 between Leeu Gamka and Prins Albert in the Western Cape which involved two Toyota Quantum taxis and one Suzuki Brezza SUV, resulting in a multiple-vehicle crash and twenty-one people losing their lives.<\/p>\n<p>Another major crash occurred on Sunday 13 September 2026 at approximately 01:00 on the N17 between Ermelo and Davel in Mpumalanga.<\/p>\n<p>This crash involved two sedan vehicles in a head on collision which resulted in eight people losing their lives.<\/p>\n<p>Minister Creecy and Deputy Minister Hlengwa have directed the RTMC working together with local authorities to investigate the causes of these road crashes. The preliminary reports will be available&#8230;<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/news.aspx?s=1&#038;i=78612&#038;page=minister-creecy-and-deputy-minister-hlengwa-express-their-condolences-following-two-major-road-crashes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on Arrive Alive <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Minister of Transport, Ms. Barbara Creecy, and Transport Deputy Minister, Mr. Mkhuleko Hlengwa, have expressed their condolences and deepest sympathies to the bereaved families who lost their loved ones in two major road crashes in Mpumalanga and Western Cape Provinces. This morning a major crash occurred at approximately 00:30 on the N1 between Leeu [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":56358,"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\/wall_image(4).jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2149],"tags":[313,1327,2168,310],"class_list":["post-56357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-accidents","tag-mpumalanga","tag-taxi-accident","tag-taxis","tag-western-cape"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/ckfinder\/userfiles\/images\/wall_image(4).jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56357","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=56357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56357\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}