{"id":57342,"date":"2026-10-05T10:30:14","date_gmt":"2026-10-05T08:30:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/massive-n3-hidcote-crash-truck-spills-cargo-into-oncoming-traffic-after-bus-collision\/"},"modified":"2026-10-05T10:30:14","modified_gmt":"2026-10-05T08:30:14","slug":"massive-n3-hidcote-crash-truck-spills-cargo-into-oncoming-traffic-after-bus-collision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/massive-n3-hidcote-crash-truck-spills-cargo-into-oncoming-traffic-after-bus-collision\/","title":{"rendered":"Massive N3 Hidcote Crash: Truck spills cargo into oncoming traffic after bus collision"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At midnight last night, the KwaZulu Private Ambulance Service medical team responded to reports of a major collision on the N3 near Hidcote.<\/p>\n<p>Upon arrival, Paramedics discovered that a long-distance bus carrying 59 passengers bound for Johannesburg had been involved in a heavy collision with a truck. The severe force of the impact forced the truck off the roadway, causing it to lose its cargo, which spilt directly into oncoming lanes.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the high-impact nature of the incident and the serious hazard created by the spilt load, no other vehicles were involved.<\/p>\n<p>The medical team immediately assessed all occupants on scene. A total of seven individuals-six bus passengers and the truck driver-sustained injuries ranging from minor to serious. Paramedics stabilised all seven patients on scene before transporting them to nearby hospitals for further definitive care.<\/p>\n<p>Local authorities were present to secure the scene, direct traffic around the spilt cargo, and conduct a full investigation&#8230;<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/news.aspx?s=1&#038;i=78787&#038;page=massive-n3-hidcote-crash-truck-spills-cargo-into-oncoming-traffic-after-bus-collision\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on Arrive Alive <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At midnight last night, the KwaZulu Private Ambulance Service medical team responded to reports of a major collision on the N3 near Hidcote. Upon arrival, Paramedics discovered that a long-distance bus carrying 59 passengers bound for Johannesburg had been involved in a heavy collision with a truck. The severe force of the impact forced the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":57343,"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\/Truck%20spills%20cargo%20into%20oncoming%20traffic%20after%20bus%20collision.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2149],"tags":[2150,2151],"class_list":["post-57342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-accidents","tag-bus","tag-bus-accident"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/ckfinder\/userfiles\/images\/Truck%20spills%20cargo%20into%20oncoming%20traffic%20after%20bus%20collision.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57342","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=57342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57342\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}