{"id":138565,"date":"2016-11-17T07:04:00","date_gmt":"2016-11-17T05:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/138565\/two-dead-four-critically-injured-in-pedestrian-accident\/"},"modified":"2016-11-17T14:37:28","modified_gmt":"2016-11-17T12:37:28","slug":"two-dead-four-critically-injured-in-pedestrian-accident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2016\/11\/17\/two-dead-four-critically-injured-in-pedestrian-accident\/","title":{"rendered":"Two dead, four critically injured in pedestrian accident"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A horror accident in Katlehong, on Sunday, left two pedestrians dead and four others critically injured.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is alleged that a vehicle hit them while they were walking on the pavement next to Sontonga Road at 4am,\u201d said William Ntladi, district manager media liaison for Ekurhuleni Disaster and Emergency Management Services (DEMS).<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>Paramedics and a rescue team from the Hlahatsi Fire Station responded swiftly to the scene and found all six patients still lying across the area.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTwo male patients were declared dead on the scene and four others sustained poly-critical injuries.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>\u201cThey were transported to Thelle Mogoerane Regional Hospital by ambulance,\u201d said Ntladi.<\/p>\n<p>An inquest docket has been opened by the police for further investigation.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Other articles you may be interested in:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/138518\/motorcyclist-seriously-injured-in-accident\/\" target=\"_blank\">Motorcyclist seriously injured in accident<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/126620\/head-on-collision-kills-four-injures-six\/\" target=\"_blank\">Head-on collision kills four, injures six<\/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='5f340a60029380d37a1e8a6bfa5c1f28'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two pedestrians were killed while four others were injured in an early morning accident.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":138566,"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":[1130,2092,979,969,1015,2734,8175],"class_list":["post-138565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news-headlines","tag-accident","tag-ekurhuleni-disaster-and-emergency-management-services","tag-germiston","tag-germiston-city-news","tag-katlehong","tag-melissa-hart","tag-pedestrian-accident"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Local news"},"tag_labels":["accident","Ekurhuleni Disaster and Emergency Management Services","germiston","germiston city news","katlehong","melissa hart","pedestrian accident"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138565","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=138565"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138565\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/138566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}