{"id":10481,"date":"2013-08-12T11:40:00","date_gmt":"2013-08-12T09:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/10481\/blind-woman-knocked-overoralleged-drunken-driver-seriously-injures-blind-woman\/"},"modified":"2013-08-12T11:35:45","modified_gmt":"2013-08-12T09:35:45","slug":"blind-woman-knocked-overoralleged-drunken-driver-seriously-injures-blind-woman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2013\/08\/12\/blind-woman-knocked-overoralleged-drunken-driver-seriously-injures-blind-woman\/","title":{"rendered":"Blind woman knocked over"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Saturday, August 3, an elderly blind woman was knocked down by an allegedly intoxicated driver.<\/p>\n<p>The accident happened at 1.24pm, at the corner of Olivier and Van der Merwe roads, in Elsburg.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;A maroon Opel Kadett, driven by an allegedly intoxicated 47-year-old man, with three minor passengers, knocked over a blind 73-year-old female pedestrian while she was walking with her guide dog,&#8221; said Kobeli Mokheseng, the media liaison officer for the EMPD.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The dog was unscathed, but the pedestrian had to be rushed to Union Hospital, in Alberton, with serious injuries.&#8221;<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>The driver, who didn&#8217;t sustain any visible injuries, was taken to the Elsburg Police Station and charged with driving while under the influence of alcohol, and reckless and negligent driving.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is not clear at this stage what actually occurred before the accident, but our Accident Reconstruction Unit will investigate the cause,&#8221; said Mokheseng.<\/p>\n<p>The Elsburg SAPS are continuing to investigate the case.<\/p>\n<div class=\"stream-item stream-item-below-post-content\">\n<div class='tenancy_slot tenancy_slot_1 jannah_ad' style='display: none;' data-query-id='3bb39baf42957397d3fae8e0e66b6554'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An alleged drunken driver knocked over and seriously injured a blind woman.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":10647,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"Melissa Hart","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2],"tags":[1130,1442,1318,988,979],"class_list":["post-10481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news-headlines","tag-accident","tag-ekurhuleni-emergency-services","tag-elsburg","tag-empd","tag-germiston"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Local news"},"tag_labels":["accident","ekurhuleni emergency services","elsburg","empd","germiston"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1848"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10481\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}