{"id":56757,"date":"2026-09-21T08:00:05","date_gmt":"2026-09-21T06:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/a-man-was-rescued-from-a-truck-trapped-on-a-low-lying-bridge-on-a-farm-road-across-the-gamtoos-river\/"},"modified":"2026-09-21T08:00:05","modified_gmt":"2026-09-21T06:00:05","slug":"a-man-was-rescued-from-a-truck-trapped-on-a-low-lying-bridge-on-a-farm-road-across-the-gamtoos-river","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/a-man-was-rescued-from-a-truck-trapped-on-a-low-lying-bridge-on-a-farm-road-across-the-gamtoos-river\/","title":{"rendered":"A man was rescued from a truck trapped on a low lying bridge on a farm road across the Gamtoos river"},"content":{"rendered":"

NSRI – STATION 21, St Francis Bay. STATION 37, Jeffreys Bay. STATION 6, Gqeberha, STATION 7, East London, NSRI VSC (Volunteer Support Centre).<\/p>\n

NSRI – Patensie – Sunday, 20 September. A man rescued from a truck trapped on a low lying bridge on a farm road across the Gamtoos river:<\/p>\n

Louwrens Bezuidenhout, NSRI St Francis Bay deputy station commander, said:<\/p>\n

At 19h33, Friday, 18 September, NSRI St Francis Bay duty crew were activated following a request for assistance from a farmer, in Patensie, reporting a truck trapped on a low lying bridge on a farm road across the Gamtoos River, between Patensie and Hankey, Eastern Cape.<\/p>\n

NSRI EOC (Emergency Operations Centre) were alerted and NSRI Jeffreys Bay duty crew were activated to assist.<\/p>\n

The SA Police Service, EC Government Health EMS rescue squad and Smart Security activated to respond.<\/p>\n

NSRI St Francis Bay dispatched a private vehicle with NSRI rescue swimmers. NSRI Jeffreys Bay dispatched NSRI rescue swimmers…<\/p>\n

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NSRI – STATION 21, St Francis Bay. STATION 37, Jeffreys Bay. STATION 6, Gqeberha, STATION 7, East London, NSRI VSC (Volunteer Support Centre). NSRI – Patensie – Sunday, 20 September. A man rescued from a truck trapped on a low lying bridge on a farm road across the Gamtoos river: Louwrens Bezuidenhout, NSRI St Francis […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":56758,"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\/Screenshot%202026-09-21%20071533.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2149],"tags":[99],"class_list":["post-56757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-accidents","tag-eastern-cape"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/ckfinder\/userfiles\/images\/Screenshot%202026-09-21%20071533.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56757","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=56757"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56757\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}