{"id":57595,"date":"2026-10-21T03:15:14","date_gmt":"2026-10-21T01:15:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/scholars-escape-minibus-fire-ballito-kzn\/"},"modified":"2026-10-21T03:15:14","modified_gmt":"2026-10-21T01:15:14","slug":"scholars-escape-minibus-fire-ballito-kzn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/scholars-escape-minibus-fire-ballito-kzn\/","title":{"rendered":"Scholars Escape Minibus Fire: Ballito \u2013 KZN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scholars escaped without injury after the minibus they were travelling in caught alight on the R102 near Ballito &ndash; KZN this morning (Tuesday 20\/10\/2026).<\/p>\n<p>A member of Reaction Unit South Africa (RUSA) was conducting patrols when he encountered the burning vehicle at approximately 07:02. All scholars had managed to exit the minibus. The driver informed the Officer that he did not know what caused the fire. <\/p>\n<p>The Fire Department was dispatched to the scene&#8230;.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/news.aspx?s=1&#038;i=78918&#038;page=scholars-escape-minibus-fire-ballito-kzn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on Arrive Alive <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scholars escaped without injury after the minibus they were travelling in caught alight on the R102 near Ballito &ndash; KZN this morning (Tuesday 20\/10\/2026). A member of Reaction Unit South Africa (RUSA) was conducting patrols when he encountered the burning vehicle at approximately 07:02. All scholars had managed to exit the minibus. The driver informed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":57596,"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\/858340251_2558428774596908_484775615529593780_n.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2149],"tags":[66,2152],"class_list":["post-57595","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\/858340251_2558428774596908_484775615529593780_n.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57595","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=57595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57595\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}