{"id":55159,"date":"2026-04-06T07:54:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T07:54:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/?p=55159"},"modified":"2026-04-06T07:54:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T07:54:13","slug":"2026-04-06-14-year-old-boy-killed-while-driving-drunk-father","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/2026\/04\/06\/2026-04-06-14-year-old-boy-killed-while-driving-drunk-father\/","title":{"rendered":"14-year-old boy killed while driving \u2018drunk\u2019 father"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script data-jetpack-boost=\"ignore\" async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-1669381584671856\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- Africa tv video display -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1669381584671856\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"3579572842\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script data-jetpack-boost=\"ignore\">\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">A 14-year-old boy died when he overturned his father\u2019s car several times.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">His father was his passenger and had allegedly been drunk when the boy took over the wheel on the M25 in KwaMashu, KZN, on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Members of Reaction Unit South Africa (RUSA) were dispatched after their operations centre was inundated with calls from members of the public reporting a serious motor vehicle accident.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cOn arrival at approximately 3:59pm, Reaction Officers found that a blue Toyota Corolla Quest had overturned multiple times. It is alleged that the 14-year-old was driving the vehicle in the eastbound lane when he failed to negotiate a bend, causing the vehicle to veer onto the verge on the extreme right before rolling several times,\u201d said RUSA.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The vehicle came to a stop on all four wheels in the opposite lane, facing the westbound direction.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cIt was established that the boy\u2019s father was a passenger in the vehicle at the time of the incident. The father was allegedly under the influence of alcohol, which resulted in the minor operating the vehicle,\u201d said RUSA.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Paramedics assessed the boy who was ejected from the vehicle and was declared dead on the scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The father was handed over to police for further investigation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\"><b>Sowetan<\/b><\/p>\n<hr class=\"c-divider\"\/><\/div>\n<p><script data-jetpack-boost=\"ignore\" async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-1669381584671856\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- Africa tv video display -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1669381584671856\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"3579572842\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script data-jetpack-boost=\"ignore\">\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n#14yearold #boy #killed #driving #drunk #father<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 14-year-old boy died when he overturned his father\u2019s car several times. His father was his passenger and had allegedly&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":55160,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mzansi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55159"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55161,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55159\/revisions\/55161"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}