{"id":9098,"date":"2018-04-23T11:30:08","date_gmt":"2018-04-23T09:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/seven-people-injured-when-a-bakkie-and-a-bus-collided-in-verulam-kzn\/"},"modified":"2018-04-23T11:30:12","modified_gmt":"2018-04-23T09:30:12","slug":"seven-people-injured-when-a-bakkie-and-a-bus-collided-in-verulam-kzn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/seven-people-injured-when-a-bakkie-and-a-bus-collided-in-verulam-kzn\/","title":{"rendered":"Seven People Injured when a bakkie and a bus Collided in Verulam, KZN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p>Paramedics from Reaction Unit South Africa treated seven (7) injured passengers following a collision between a bus and a bakkie this morning in Verulam &#8211; KZN.<\/p>\n<p>At approx 05:32 (Monday) the RUSA Operation Center received multiple calls from a motorist reporting a collision on the Oakford Road near Redcliffe. Upon arrival<\/p>\n<p>Reaction Officers found a bus lying in a bush &amp; a white Nissan MP 200 on the side of the road. The injured were treated on scene and transported to Osindisweni Hospital.<\/p>\n<p>The driver of the bakkie was arrested for driving under the influence. It was later established that he was unauthorized to use his company bakkie &amp; whilst speeding with two female passengers, he had crossed over on the oncoming lane &amp; crashed into the bus.<\/p>\n<p>Also view<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Seven People Injured when a bakkie and a bus Collided in Verulam, KZN <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Q3cEMDjSqk\">https:\/\/t.co\/Q3cEMDjSqk<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ArriveAlive?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#ArriveAlive<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/QjzjweqH7P\">pic.twitter.com\/QjzjweqH7P<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Arrive Alive (@_ArriveAlive) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/_ArriveAlive\/status\/988303965338128386?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">April 23, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/news.aspx?s=1&#038;i=34366&#038;page=Seven-People-Injured-when-a-bakkie-and-a-bus-Collided-in-Verulam-KZN\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on Arrive Alive <\/a><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/arrive-alive.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4522\" src=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/arrive-alive.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"48\" height=\"48\" title=\"\"><\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today &#8211; Accidents<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paramedics from Reaction Unit South Africa treated seven (7) injured passengers following a collision between a bus and a bakkie this morning in Verulam &#8211; KZN. At approx 05:32 (Monday) the RUSA Operation Center received multiple calls from a motorist reporting a collision on the Oakford Road near Redcliffe. Upon arrival Reaction Officers found a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9099,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2149],"tags":[2150,2151,66,2152,168,2153,175],"class_list":["post-9098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-accidents","tag-bus","tag-bus-accident","tag-kwazulu-natal","tag-kzn","tag-news","tag-south-africa-accidents","tag-south-africa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9098","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=9098"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9098\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}