{"id":57660,"date":"2026-10-25T11:15:04","date_gmt":"2026-10-25T09:15:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/fatal-collision-on-sweetwaters-road-in-pmb\/"},"modified":"2026-10-25T11:15:04","modified_gmt":"2026-10-25T09:15:04","slug":"fatal-collision-on-sweetwaters-road-in-pmb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/fatal-collision-on-sweetwaters-road-in-pmb\/","title":{"rendered":"Fatal collision on Sweetwaters Road in PMB"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last night at approximately 10pm, KwaZulu Private Ambulance Service responded to reports of a collision on Sweetwaters road in PMB. <\/p>\n<p>When medics arrived they found that 2 vehicles had been involved in a collision, a rapid assessment was done and two occupants of the bakkie were found trapped in the bakkie. One occupant had sustained life threatening injuries and was stabilized on scene. <\/p>\n<p>Sadly the second occupant had sustained that fatal injuries and succumbed to their injuries before emergency services could arrive. <\/p>\n<p>Together with the fire department, the patient was extricated using specialised rescue equipment. <\/p>\n<p>The occupants of the second vehicle had severe injuries and were taken to Hilton Life Hospital&#8230;.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/news.aspx?s=1&#038;i=78959&#038;page=fatal-collision-on-sweetwaters-road-in-pmb\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on Arrive Alive <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night at approximately 10pm, KwaZulu Private Ambulance Service responded to reports of a collision on Sweetwaters road in PMB. When medics arrived they found that 2 vehicles had been involved in a collision, a rapid assessment was done and two occupants of the bakkie were found trapped in the bakkie. One occupant had sustained [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":57661,"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\/3110514b-6173-4bfc-9c9c-490fe3cb9bae.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2149],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-accidents"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/ckfinder\/userfiles\/images\/3110514b-6173-4bfc-9c9c-490fe3cb9bae.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57660","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=57660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57660\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}