{"id":57562,"date":"2026-10-18T16:45:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-18T14:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/7-injured-in-head-on-collision-ballito\/"},"modified":"2026-10-18T16:45:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-18T14:45:08","slug":"7-injured-in-head-on-collision-ballito","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/7-injured-in-head-on-collision-ballito\/","title":{"rendered":"7 Injured in head-on collision &#8211; Ballito"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this morning IPSS Medical Rescue received reports of a motor vehicle accident on Ballito Drive in Ballito.<\/p>\n<p>On arrival of paramedics it was established that a taxi and bakkie had collided head-on leaving seven people with injuries ranging from serious to minor. One occupant was found to be entrapped in the taxi and was extricated by Kwadukuza Fire Department. <\/p>\n<p>Six seriously injured patients were stabilised on scene before being transported to appropriate hospitals under the care of IPSS Medical Rescue Advanced Life Support paramedics for further management.<\/p>\n<p>One patient sustained minor injuries and was transported to a nearby clinic by EMRS.<\/p>\n<p>0823 911 911&#8230;<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/news.aspx?s=1&#038;i=78895&#038;page=7-injured-in-head-on-collision-ballito\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on Arrive Alive <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this morning IPSS Medical Rescue received reports of a motor vehicle accident on Ballito Drive in Ballito. On arrival of paramedics it was established that a taxi and bakkie had collided head-on leaving seven people with injuries ranging from serious to minor. One occupant was found to be entrapped in the taxi and was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":57563,"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\/854650805_29136715999298539_8985347776697943292_n.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2149],"tags":[1888,1327],"class_list":["post-57562","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\/854650805_29136715999298539_8985347776697943292_n.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57562","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=57562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57562\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}