{"id":57017,"date":"2026-09-24T14:30:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-24T12:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/pedestrian-injured-in-taxi-accident-tongaat-kwazulu-natal\/"},"modified":"2026-09-24T14:30:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T12:30:08","slug":"pedestrian-injured-in-taxi-accident-tongaat-kwazulu-natal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/pedestrian-injured-in-taxi-accident-tongaat-kwazulu-natal\/","title":{"rendered":"Pedestrian Injured In Taxi Accident: Tongaat \u2013 KwaZulu-Natal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A female pedestrian sustained injuries to both legs after she was struck by a taxi near the corner of Gopalall Hurbans Road and the R102 in Tongaat, KwaZulu-Natal, this morning (Thursday, 24\/09\/2026).<\/p>\n<p>A member of Reaction Unit South Africa (RUSA) responded to the scene at approximately 06:10 and found the woman lying near the roadway.<\/p>\n<p>The Taxi Driver stated that he was travelling towards Magwaveni &#8211; KZN when the woman attempted to cross the road from Hambanathi &#8211; KZN. He said he tried to avoid her, but she moved in the same direction as the taxi.<\/p>\n<p>The taxi sustained damage to its windscreen and front end&#8230;.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/news.aspx?s=1&#038;i=78716&#038;page=pedestrian-injured-in-taxi-accident-tongaat-kwazulu-natal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on Arrive Alive <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A female pedestrian sustained injuries to both legs after she was struck by a taxi near the corner of Gopalall Hurbans Road and the R102 in Tongaat, KwaZulu-Natal, this morning (Thursday, 24\/09\/2026). A member of Reaction Unit South Africa (RUSA) responded to the scene at approximately 06:10 and found the woman lying near the roadway. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":57018,"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\/823993712_1073027242167103_5991776215520563932_n.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2149],"tags":[66,2152,1888,1327],"class_list":["post-57017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-accidents","tag-kwazulu-natal","tag-kzn","tag-taxi","tag-taxi-accident"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/ckfinder\/userfiles\/images\/823993712_1073027242167103_5991776215520563932_n.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57017","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=57017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57017\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}