A OUPA and his daughter miraculously escaped with their lives after their vehicle was dragged under a moving truck in Athlone.<\/p>\n
The two were travelling in a Toyota Corolla on Klipfontein Road and near Hickory Road in Belgravia on Monday when the incident occurred.<\/p>\n
According to a Daily Voice source they said that the driver wanted to make a U-turn, however misjudged the situation.<\/p>\n
The source said: \u201cApparently they wanted to make a U-turn and obviously they lost control and slid underneath the truck, but as they were sliding under the truck, the truck stopped.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat is why the wheel didn\u2019t go over that car, it happened from a side angle.\u201d<\/p>\n
A video that circulated on social media saw how the car was stuck under the truck and emergency services were able to pull the female passenger out of the Toyota.<\/p>\n
Police spokesperson Captain FC van Wyk said: \u201cAthlone police registered an accident report following an accident on Monday, 2026-01-12 at 14:15 in Klipfontein Road, Athlone, between a truck and a Toyota Corolla.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe driver of the vehicle aged 75 and a female passenger aged 39 were taken to a nearby medical facility for treatment.\u201d<\/p>\n
He added that circumstances surrounding this accident are under investigation.<\/p>\n
Western Cape Department of Health and Wellness spokesperson Shimoney Regter said: “Emergency Medical Services responded to the incident. <\/p>\n
“Upon arrival, two patients were assessed and safely transported to a Cape Town healthcare facility for further medical care.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A OUPA and his daughter miraculously escaped with their lives after their vehicle was dragged under a moving…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21254,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[4907,13226,4365,13225,13223,13220,131,3534,13224,13218,13217,13221,13219,13222,13227],"class_list":{"0":"post-21253","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-south-africa","8":"tag-athlone","9":"tag-belgravia","10":"tag-daily-voice","11":"tag-hickory-road","12":"tag-klipfontein-road","13":"tag-oupa","14":"tag-south-africa","15":"tag-toyota","16":"tag-toyota-corolla","17":"tag-truck","18":"tag-two","19":"tag-u-turn","20":"tag-vehicle","21":"tag-vrou","22":"tag-wyk"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21253\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}