{"id":57366,"date":"2026-10-06T19:00:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-06T17:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/pedestrian-fatally-injured-umhlanga-kzn\/"},"modified":"2026-10-06T19:00:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-06T17:00:08","slug":"pedestrian-fatally-injured-umhlanga-kzn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/pedestrian-fatally-injured-umhlanga-kzn\/","title":{"rendered":"Pedestrian Fatally Injured: Umhlanga \u2013 KZN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man was fatally injured after being struck by a blue Toyota Corolla Cross on the M41 in Umhlanga &ndash; KZN this afternoon (Monday 05\/10\/2026).<br \/>\nThe Reaction Unit South Africa (RUSA) Operations Centre received a call for assistance at approximately 15:40. Reaction Officers and RUSA Paramedics were dispatched to the scene.<br \/>\nOn arrival, Officers met with the driver who stated that she was changing lanes when she noticed a man in the roadway. She attempted to brake but struck the pedestrian, who was thrown several metres.<br \/>\nParamedics assessed the pedestrian and declared him deceased&#8230;.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/news.aspx?s=1&#038;i=78788&#038;page=pedestrian-fatally-injured-umhlanga-kzn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on Arrive Alive <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A man was fatally injured after being struck by a blue Toyota Corolla Cross on the M41 in Umhlanga &ndash; KZN this afternoon (Monday 05\/10\/2026). The Reaction Unit South Africa (RUSA) Operations Centre received a call for assistance at approximately 15:40. Reaction Officers and RUSA Paramedics were dispatched to the scene. On arrival, Officers met [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":57367,"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\/836959678_1552527380234349_2964582374920869836_n.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2149],"tags":[66,2152],"class_list":["post-57366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-accidents","tag-kwazulu-natal","tag-kzn"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/ckfinder\/userfiles\/images\/836959678_1552527380234349_2964582374920869836_n.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57366","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=57366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57366\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}