{"id":57771,"date":"2026-10-30T14:45:06","date_gmt":"2026-10-30T12:45:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/a-bakkie-and-a-car-collided-along-the-r56-near-richmond\/"},"modified":"2026-10-30T14:45:06","modified_gmt":"2026-10-30T12:45:06","slug":"a-bakkie-and-a-car-collided-along-the-r56-near-richmond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/a-bakkie-and-a-car-collided-along-the-r56-near-richmond\/","title":{"rendered":"A bakkie and a car collided along the R56 near Richmond"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This morning along the R56 near Richmond, a bakkie and car collided, resulting in the bakkie overturning and colliding into a truck, before coming to a stop in a ditch along the side of the road.<\/p>\n<p>KwaZulu Private Ambulance Service responded to the collision and once on scene medical teams began a rapid assessment. Six occupants, four from the bakkie and two from the car had sustained injuries ranging from minor to serious.<\/p>\n<p>Once the patients had been stabilized, they were transported to a nearby hospital for further care.<\/p>\n<p>RTI is investigation the collision. No other information is available&#8230;.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/news.aspx?s=1&#038;i=79020&#038;page=a-bakkie-and-a-car-collided-along-the-r56-near-richmond\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on Arrive Alive <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This morning along the R56 near Richmond, a bakkie and car collided, resulting in the bakkie overturning and colliding into a truck, before coming to a stop in a ditch along the side of the road. KwaZulu Private Ambulance Service responded to the collision and once on scene medical teams began a rapid assessment. Six [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":57772,"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\/069f276b-19ec-4361-895a-bce1184dc8b7.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2149],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-accidents"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/ckfinder\/userfiles\/images\/069f276b-19ec-4361-895a-bce1184dc8b7.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57771","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=57771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57771\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}