{"id":57205,"date":"2026-09-26T18:30:05","date_gmt":"2026-09-26T16:30:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/sixteen-people-have-been-hospitalised-following-a-taxi-crash-at-the-intersection-of-eiselen-and-sibeko-streets-in-daveyton-ekurhuleni\/"},"modified":"2026-09-26T18:30:05","modified_gmt":"2026-09-26T16:30:05","slug":"sixteen-people-have-been-hospitalised-following-a-taxi-crash-at-the-intersection-of-eiselen-and-sibeko-streets-in-daveyton-ekurhuleni","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/sixteen-people-have-been-hospitalised-following-a-taxi-crash-at-the-intersection-of-eiselen-and-sibeko-streets-in-daveyton-ekurhuleni\/","title":{"rendered":"Sixteen people have been hospitalised following a taxi crash at the intersection of Eiselen and Sibeko Streets in Daveyton, Ekurhuleni"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sixteen people have been hospitalised following a taxi crash at the intersection of Eiselen and Sibeko Streets in Daveyton, Ekurhuleni.<\/p>\n<p>The incident involved a Toyota Siyaya carrying 16 occupants, which collided with stationary tyre-repair containers at the intersection.<\/p>\n<p>The Etwatwa Fire Station received the emergency call at approximately 14:50 today and rescue teams were dispatched to the scene.<\/p>\n<p>On arrival, firefighters assessed the situation and found the taxi driver trapped behind the steering wheel. The other 15 occupants had already been assisted out of the vehicle by members of the public and moved to a place of safety.<\/p>\n<p>Rescue personnel managed to safely extricate the trapped driver without causing further injuries.<\/p>\n<p>Gauteng Provincial Government Ambulance Services dispatched several ambulances to transport the injured to medical facilities across Ekurhuleni.<\/p>\n<p>Medical teams applied a triage system to prioritise the most seriously injured patients.<\/p>\n<p>Two adults &mdash;&#8230;<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/news.aspx?s=1&#038;i=78729&#038;page=sixteen-people-have-been-hospitalised-following-a-taxi-crash-at-the-intersection-of-eiselen-and-sibeko-streets-in-daveyton-ekurhuleni\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on Arrive Alive <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sixteen people have been hospitalised following a taxi crash at the intersection of Eiselen and Sibeko Streets in Daveyton, Ekurhuleni. The incident involved a Toyota Siyaya carrying 16 occupants, which collided with stationary tyre-repair containers at the intersection. The Etwatwa Fire Station received the emergency call at approximately 14:50 today and rescue teams were dispatched [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":57206,"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\/825278374_2083695715848395_5589516762674938729_n.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2149],"tags":[164,1888,1327],"class_list":["post-57205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-accidents","tag-gauteng","tag-taxi","tag-taxi-accident"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/ckfinder\/userfiles\/images\/825278374_2083695715848395_5589516762674938729_n.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57205","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=57205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57205\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}