{"id":126620,"date":"2016-07-05T10:10:00","date_gmt":"2016-07-05T08:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/126620\/head-on-collision-kills-four-injures-six\/"},"modified":"2016-07-05T18:42:27","modified_gmt":"2016-07-05T16:42:27","slug":"head-on-collision-kills-four-injures-six","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2016\/07\/05\/head-on-collision-kills-four-injures-six\/","title":{"rendered":"Head-on collision kills four, injures six"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Four people were killed and six others critically injured in an accident involving two light motor vehicles, on Sunday at 3am.<\/p>\n<p>The collision took place on Thutong Road which links Katlehong and Vosloorus.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>Two of the critically injured patients were still trapped in one of the vehicles (a white BMW sedan) involved when rescue teams arrived on scene.<\/p>\n<p>Specialised rescue tools (Jaws of Life) had to be used to access and free the patients.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>\u201cThree patients from the BMW sedan were declared dead on scene and the other fatality was from the Toyota Conquest hatchback,\u201d said William Ntladi, district manager media liaison for Ekurhuleni Disaster and Emergency Management Services (DEMS).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll the injured patients were transported to Thelle Mogoerane Regional Hospital in Vosloorus in ambulances.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The road was closed to traffic for the duration of the emergency work on the accident scene, until EMPD officers had completed their investigation.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Other articles you may be interested in:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/126452\/paramedics-respond-to-taxi-on-fire\/\" target=\"_blank\">Paramedics respond to taxi on fire<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/126132\/four-dead-11-injured-in-accident\/\" target=\"_blank\">Four dead, 11 injured when fleeing criminals crash into taxi<\/a><\/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='5fb268006e2c847ae772c92665e035a1'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DEMS services rushed to the scene of a fatal accident near Katlehong, on Sunday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":126622,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2],"tags":[1130,7805,1611,988,979,969,1015,2734,5519],"class_list":["post-126620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news-headlines","tag-accident","tag-dems","tag-emergency-services","tag-empd","tag-germiston","tag-germiston-city-news","tag-katlehong","tag-melissa-hart","tag-vosloorus"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Local news"},"tag_labels":["accident","DEMS","emergency services","empd","germiston","germiston city news","katlehong","melissa hart","vosloorus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126620","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=126620"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126620\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/126622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}