{"id":57423,"date":"2026-10-09T18:30:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-09T16:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/head-on-collision-between-a-volkswagen-caravelle-school-transport-vehicle-and-a-mercedes-benz-truck-on-the-r59-road-between-sasolburg-and-vaalpark\/"},"modified":"2026-10-09T18:30:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-09T16:30:09","slug":"head-on-collision-between-a-volkswagen-caravelle-school-transport-vehicle-and-a-mercedes-benz-truck-on-the-r59-road-between-sasolburg-and-vaalpark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/head-on-collision-between-a-volkswagen-caravelle-school-transport-vehicle-and-a-mercedes-benz-truck-on-the-r59-road-between-sasolburg-and-vaalpark\/","title":{"rendered":"Head-on collision between a Volkswagen Caravelle school transport vehicle and a Mercedes-Benz truck on the R59 Road between Sasolburg and Vaalpark"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Sasolburg police are investigating a case of culpable homicide following a head-on collision between a Volkswagen Caravelle school transport vehicle and a Mercedes-Benz truck on the R59 Road between Sasolburg and Vaalpark.<\/p>\n<p>It is alleged that on Thursday, 08 October 2026, at about 15:15, police received a complaint of culpable homicide. Upon arrival at the scene, police discovered that a Volkswagen Caravelle, which was traveling from Vaalpark towards Sasolburg, had collided head-on with a Mercedes-Benz truck travelling in the direction of Vereeniging.<\/p>\n<p>Four people, an adult male aged 60 and three children aged between six and nine years, lost their lives in the accident.<\/p>\n<p>The male driver of the Volkswagen Caravelle, one girl and two boys, were declared dead at the scene. Another boy was airlifted to a hospital in Alberton, while three other children who sustained serious injuries were transported to local hospitals for medical attention.<\/p>\n<p>The driver of the truck survived the&#8230;<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/news.aspx?s=1&#038;i=78813&#038;page=head-on-collision-between-a-volkswagen-caravelle-school-transport-vehicle-and-a-mercedes-benz-truck-on-the-r59-road-between-sasolburg-and-vaalpark\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on Arrive Alive <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Sasolburg police are investigating a case of culpable homicide following a head-on collision between a Volkswagen Caravelle school transport vehicle and a Mercedes-Benz truck on the R59 Road between Sasolburg and Vaalpark. It is alleged that on Thursday, 08 October 2026, at about 15:15, police received a complaint of culpable homicide. Upon arrival at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":57424,"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\/840117223_1658213139005182_8651248767014995529_n.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2149],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-accidents"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/ckfinder\/userfiles\/images\/840117223_1658213139005182_8651248767014995529_n.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57423","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=57423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57423\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}