{"id":249941,"date":"2023-02-14T10:33:23","date_gmt":"2023-02-14T08:33:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/limpopo-crash-claims-20-lives\/"},"modified":"2023-02-14T10:33:23","modified_gmt":"2023-02-14T08:33:23","slug":"limpopo-crash-claims-20-lives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/limpopo-crash-claims-20-lives\/","title":{"rendered":"Limpopo crash claims 20 lives"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sanews.gov.za\/sites\/default\/files\/2012\/images\/newsstorytemplate\/202302\/florenceradzilani.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>Limpopo MEC for Transport and Community Safety, Florence Radzilani, has expressed shock and sadness at the news of a bus accident, which happened on Monday on the N1-29 stretch, next to the HF Verwoerd Tunnel. The crash claimed a total of 20 lives.<\/p>\n<p>Radzilani has since sent messages of condolences to the families of the deceased and comfort to the survivors.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe accident involved a bus that was transporting passengers from Makhado to areas around Ndzhelele, Siloam and Tshikombani in the Vhembe District,\u201d the department said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>According to reports, a truck that was overtaking another vehicle lost control and collided with the bus. The bus rolled over a bridge and 19 people died on the scene.<\/p>\n<p>The exact details surrounding the collision are unknown at this time. The South African Police Service is investigating the cause of the accident.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cParamedics and rescue personnel were able to retrieve 19 bodies from the crash and the 20th person lost their life in hospital,\u201d the department said.<\/p>\n<p>Scores of injured survivors were taken to various hospitals for varying degrees of injuries.<\/p>\n<p>Police divers have been dispatched to the scene to verify that no one has been swept away in the river.<\/p>\n<p>According to reports, 68 people were left injured after the bus landed in a river after rolling off a bridge on the freeway.<\/p>\n<p>Radzilani is today expected to visit the injured. \u2013 <strong>SAnews.gov.za<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Limpopo MEC for Transport and Community Safety, Florence Radzilani, has expressed shock and sadness at the news of a bus accident, which happened on Monday on the N1-29 stretch, next to the HF Verwoerd Tunnel. The crash claimed a total of 20 lives. Radzilani has since sent messages of condolences to the families of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":249942,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[38678],"class_list":{"0":"post-249941","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-south-africa","8":"tag-sanews","9":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/limpopo-crash-claims-20-lives.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249941","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=249941"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249941\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/249942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}