{"id":57602,"date":"2026-10-21T16:15:06","date_gmt":"2026-10-21T14:15:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/a-volkswagen-golf-8-gti-sustained-extensive-damage-after-being-struck-by-a-tyre-that-reportedly-detached-from-a-minibus-taxi-on-the-m4-ruth-first-highway\/"},"modified":"2026-10-21T16:15:06","modified_gmt":"2026-10-21T14:15:06","slug":"a-volkswagen-golf-8-gti-sustained-extensive-damage-after-being-struck-by-a-tyre-that-reportedly-detached-from-a-minibus-taxi-on-the-m4-ruth-first-highway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/a-volkswagen-golf-8-gti-sustained-extensive-damage-after-being-struck-by-a-tyre-that-reportedly-detached-from-a-minibus-taxi-on-the-m4-ruth-first-highway\/","title":{"rendered":"A Volkswagen Golf 8 GTI sustained extensive damage after being struck by a tyre that reportedly detached from a minibus taxi on the M4 Ruth First Highway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Volkswagen Golf 8 GTI sustained extensive damage after being struck by a tyre that reportedly detached from a minibus taxi on the M4 Ruth First Highway near the La Lucia off-ramp.<\/p>\n<p>The Golf was travelling along the highway when the incident occurred. The damage left the vehicle unable to be driven. Thankfully, its occupants escaped without injury.<\/p>\n<p>KZN VIP responded alongside towing operators and other emergency services following reports of a crash. The scene was cleared a short while later.<\/p>\n<p> 24-Hour Control Centre: 031 502 3456<br \/>\n Emergency WhatsApp: 067 712 7976<br \/>\n Email: info@kznvip.co.za&#8230;<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/news.aspx?s=1&#038;i=78930&#038;page=a-volkswagen-golf-8-gti-sustained-extensive-damage-after-being-struck-by-a-tyre-that-reportedly-detached-from-a-minibus-taxi-on-the-m4-ruth-first-highway\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on Arrive Alive <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Volkswagen Golf 8 GTI sustained extensive damage after being struck by a tyre that reportedly detached from a minibus taxi on the M4 Ruth First Highway near the La Lucia off-ramp. The Golf was travelling along the highway when the incident occurred. The damage left the vehicle unable to be driven. Thankfully, its occupants [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":57603,"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\/859040131_1542871057773628_5284585826990119493_n.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2149],"tags":[66,2152,1888,1327],"class_list":["post-57602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-accidents","tag-kwazulu-natal","tag-kzn","tag-taxi","tag-taxi-accident"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/ckfinder\/userfiles\/images\/859040131_1542871057773628_5284585826990119493_n.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57602","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=57602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57602\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}