{"id":57393,"date":"2026-10-08T03:30:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-08T01:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/the-death-toll-has-risen-to-10-lives-lost-in-the-cato-ridge-taxi-crash\/"},"modified":"2026-10-08T03:30:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-08T01:30:09","slug":"the-death-toll-has-risen-to-10-lives-lost-in-the-cato-ridge-taxi-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/the-death-toll-has-risen-to-10-lives-lost-in-the-cato-ridge-taxi-crash\/","title":{"rendered":"The death toll has risen to 10 lives lost in the Cato Ridge Taxi Crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UPDATE: The death toll has risen to 10, with a further five people seriously injured and requiring Advanced Life Support interventions following the accident.<\/p>\n<p>It has since been established that a single taxi lost control and crashed. The driver and conductor survived the accident.<\/p>\n<p>Mi7 Emergency Medical Services treated and transported two of the seriously injured patients to hospital, while another emergency medical service transported the remaining three.<\/p>\n<p>Several of the deceased were trapped beneath the wreckage, with firefighters using hydraulic rescue equipment, including the Jaws of Life, to recover them.<\/p>\n<p>The cause of the accident remains under investigation.<br \/>\n_____________<br \/>\nEARLIER POST:<\/p>\n<p>At Least Eight Dead, Others Seriously Injured in Cato Ridge Taxi Crash<\/p>\n<p>ACTIVE SCENE &ndash; 07 October 2026<\/p>\n<p>At least eight people have been confirmed dead following a serious minibus taxi crash on the MR385 in the Cato Ridge area this afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>Mi7 Emergency Medical Services&#8230;<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/news.aspx?s=1&#038;i=78802&#038;page=the-death-toll-has-risen-to-10-lives-lost-in-the-cato-ridge-taxi-crash\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on Arrive Alive <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UPDATE: The death toll has risen to 10, with a further five people seriously injured and requiring Advanced Life Support interventions following the accident. It has since been established that a single taxi lost control and crashed. The driver and conductor survived the accident. Mi7 Emergency Medical Services treated and transported two of the seriously [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":57394,"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%202026-10-07%20193904.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2149],"tags":[1888,1327],"class_list":["post-57393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-accidents","tag-taxi","tag-taxi-accident"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/ckfinder\/userfiles\/images\/Screenshot%202026-10-07%20193904.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57393","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=57393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57393\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}