{"id":57437,"date":"2026-10-10T13:45:05","date_gmt":"2026-10-10T11:45:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/two-injured-in-head-on-collision-southridge-kzn-2\/"},"modified":"2026-10-10T13:45:05","modified_gmt":"2026-10-10T11:45:05","slug":"two-injured-in-head-on-collision-southridge-kzn-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/two-injured-in-head-on-collision-southridge-kzn-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Injured In Head-On Collision: Southridge \u2013 KZN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two (2) people were hospitalised following a head-on collision on Ottawa Old Main Road in Southridge &ndash; KZN during the early hours of this morning (Saturday 10\/10\/2026).<\/p>\n<p>Members of Reaction Unit South Africa (RUSA) arrived at the scene at approximately 03:09. Reaction Officers found a silver Toyota Etios and a white Mercedes-Benz with extensive front-end damage.<\/p>\n<p>RUSA Paramedics assessed the 29-year-old Toyota Etios Driver, who had sustained a serious head injury. He was treated and stabilised at the scene before being transported to a medical facility for further care.<\/p>\n<p>A passenger in the Mercedes-Benz sustained minor injuries and was transported to hospital by a private ambulance service.<\/p>\n<p>The circumstances leading up to the collision could not be immediately established&#8230;.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/news.aspx?s=1&#038;i=78823&#038;page=two-injured-in-head-on-collision-southridge-kzn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on Arrive Alive <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two (2) people were hospitalised following a head-on collision on Ottawa Old Main Road in Southridge &ndash; KZN during the early hours of this morning (Saturday 10\/10\/2026). Members of Reaction Unit South Africa (RUSA) arrived at the scene at approximately 03:09. Reaction Officers found a silver Toyota Etios and a white Mercedes-Benz with extensive front-end [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":57438,"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\/836881902_1556973939789693_6277876871718793365_n.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2149],"tags":[66,2152],"class_list":["post-57437","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\/836881902_1556973939789693_6277876871718793365_n.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57437","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=57437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57437\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}