{"id":323481,"date":"2026-01-30T11:31:26","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T03:31:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=323481"},"modified":"2026-01-30T11:31:26","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T03:31:26","slug":"south-africa-at-least-11-dead-in-latest-crash-involving-a-minibus-taxi-8-seriously-injured","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=323481","title":{"rendered":"South Africa: At least 11 dead in latest crash involving a minibus taxi; 8 seriously injured"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table aligncenter\"><table><tbody><tr><td><img src=\"https:\/\/cdn.ghanaweb.com\/imagelib\/pics\/886\/88606850.jpg\" width=\"600\" alt=\"Scene of a deadly crash near Durban, South Africa, 29 January 2026\"><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><figcaption><strong><em>Scene of a deadly crash near Durban, South Africa<\/em><\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"article-123\">DURBAN (South Africa), Jan 30 (NNN-AFRICANEWS) &#8212; At least 11 people, including a schoolchild, died in a head-on collision between a truck and a minibus taxi along a highway just south of the South African city of Durban early on Thursday morning.<br><br>Some eight others sustained serious injuries and are receiving urgent medical care at nearby hospitals.<br><br>Officials said preliminary witnesses&#8217; reports suggest that the truck driver was making a U-turn on the road when the accident occurred.<br><br>Local media are reporting that an initial inspection by law enforcement officers found that the truck had worn-out tyres.<br><br>In addition, the taxi driver\u2019s licence reportedly expired several years ago and the vehicle is believed to have been overloaded.<br><br>He was extracted from the wreckage and is in hospital with critical injuries. The truck driver also survived. Both are under police guard.<br><br>The provincial transport department is calling for both men to be charged with multiple murders.<br><br>This latest crash comes just a week after a similar incident in Johannesburg in which 14 schoolchildren died.<br><br>That driver was arrested and charged with 14 counts of murder after the authorities alleged he was driving recklessly by overtaking a line of vehicles before crashing into a truck.<br><br>Transport Minister Barbara Creecy on Thursday expressed \u201cserious concerns\u201d about the constant rise in traffic fatalities caused by crashes involving public transportation.<br><br>Minibus taxis are used by an estimated 70 per cent of South Africans to get to and from work each day. &#8212; NNN-AFRICANEWS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scene of a deadly crash near Durban, South Africa DURBAN (South Africa), Jan 30 (NNN-AFRICANEWS) &#8212; At least 11 people, including a schoolchild, died in a head-on collision between a truck and a minibus taxi along a highway just south of the South African city of Durban early on Thursday morning. Some eight others sustained [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":323484,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[213],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323481"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=323481"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323481\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":323487,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323481\/revisions\/323487"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/323484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=323481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=323481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=323481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}