{"id":56856,"date":"2026-02-19T04:32:50","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T09:32:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/world\/bus-crash-in-south-africa-leaves-4-dead-31-hurt-as-rescue-efforts-continue\/19\/02\/2026\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T04:32:50","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T09:32:50","slug":"bus-crash-in-south-africa-leaves-4-dead-31-hurt-as-rescue-efforts-continue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/world\/bus-crash-in-south-africa-leaves-4-dead-31-hurt-as-rescue-efforts-continue\/19\/02\/2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Bus crash in South Africa leaves 4 dead, 31 hurt as rescue efforts continue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<div data-article-body=\"true\">\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">JOHANNESBURG (AP) \u2014 A bus crash in South Africa&#8217;s Limpopo province on Thursday has left at least four people dead and 31 injured, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The bus was traveling from the Gauteng province in South Africa to Zimbabwe when it lost control and swerved into a ditch on the N1 highway close to the border with Zimbabwe, according to the provincial minister for transport, Violet Mathye.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cSo far we have confirmation of four fatalities, while some other people have been transported to hospital. We will give other numbers as we get them,\u201d Mathye told public broadcaster SABC. The bus was still trapped in the ditch with passengers inside.<\/p>\n<div class=\"max-md:faux-bleed mb-4 bg-marshmallow pb-5 dark:bg-ramones md:invisible md:mb-0 md:h-0 md:overflow-hidden md:pb-0\">\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<div class=\"flex w-full flex-nowrap justify-center\">\n<div class=\"flex ad-container\" id=\"_R_2oe99lhek5clubsnoqdbH1_\">\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<style type=\"text\/css\"><![CDATA[#_R_2oe99lhek5clubsnoqdbH1_ { display: none; }\n@media screen and (max-width: 767.95px) {\n        #_R_2oe99lhek5clubsnoqdbH1_ { display: flex; }\n        iframe { max-width: 100vw; }\n      }]]><\/style>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Limpopo transport department said in a statement that the cause of the accident was initially unknown.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The accident occurred around the same area where <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/south-africa-bus-crash-8e3aabc62a5826f6522ee8cbc6fc7fb4?utm_campaign=TrueAnthem&amp;utm_medium=AP&amp;utm_source=Facebook&amp;fbclid=IwY2xjawQDqVBleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBicmlkETI0VEFEUmo2MkpWTHFZM1E3c3J0YwZhcHBfaWQQMjIyMDM5MTc4ODIwMDg5MgABHsHEq7ZU7e9CrLjRTQnZAZBogawdRRuptBt-TpjkknVW_GjDoaKi6WLeNk07_aem_9y_577s4WdbQi3pVtdY4rw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:42 people were killed;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">42 people were killed<\/a> during another bus crash in October.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/articles\/bus-crash-south-africa-leaves-085255636.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JOHANNESBURG (AP) &mdash; A bus crash in South Africa&rsquo;s Limpopo province on Thursday has left at least four people dead and 31<br \/><button class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/world\/bus-crash-in-south-africa-leaves-4-dead-31-hurt-as-rescue-efforts-continue\/19\/02\/2026\/\">Read More &rsaquo;<\/a><\/button><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":56857,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/cv\/apiv2\/social\/images\/yahoo_default_logo-1200x1200.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56856"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56856"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56856\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}