{"id":57911,"date":"2026-11-07T04:45:04","date_gmt":"2026-11-07T02:45:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/head-on-collision-leaves-2-dead-and-1-critically-injured-on-the-r622-in-the-mooi-river-area\/"},"modified":"2026-11-07T04:45:04","modified_gmt":"2026-11-07T02:45:04","slug":"head-on-collision-leaves-2-dead-and-1-critically-injured-on-the-r622-in-the-mooi-river-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/head-on-collision-leaves-2-dead-and-1-critically-injured-on-the-r622-in-the-mooi-river-area\/","title":{"rendered":"Head-on collision leaves 2 dead and 1 critically injured on the R622 in the Mooi River area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Midlands EMS Howick rescue medics, together with Midlands EMS crews, were dispatched to the R622 in the Mooi River area following reports of a serious motor vehicle accident.<\/p>\n<p>On arrival, it was established that a taxi and a motor vehicle had been involved in a head-on collision. Both vehicles sustained extensive damage as a result of the impact.<\/p>\n<p>One person travelling in the car was found severely entrapped in the wreckage and had sustained fatal injuries. The patient was declared deceased on scene by paramedics.<\/p>\n<p>A second person, who had been ejected from the taxi during the collision, was also found to have sustained fatal injuries and was declared deceased on scene.<\/p>\n<p>One additional patient was found in a critical condition, requiring urgent medical intervention. Paramedics attended to the patient, providing emergency treatment and stabilisation before transporting them to a nearby hospital for further specialised medical care.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities were in attendance and the circumstances&#8230;<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/news.aspx?s=1&#038;i=79084&#038;page=head-on-collision-leaves-2-dead-and-1-critically-injured-on-the-r622-in-the-mooi-river-area\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on Arrive Alive <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Midlands EMS Howick rescue medics, together with Midlands EMS crews, were dispatched to the R622 in the Mooi River area following reports of a serious motor vehicle accident. On arrival, it was established that a taxi and a motor vehicle had been involved in a head-on collision. Both vehicles sustained extensive damage as a result [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":57912,"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\/893346183_1749989983796527_5046145334857329972_n.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2149],"tags":[1888,1327],"class_list":["post-57911","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\/893346183_1749989983796527_5046145334857329972_n.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57911","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=57911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57911\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}