{"id":145084,"date":"2017-02-20T20:29:43","date_gmt":"2017-02-20T18:29:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/?p=145084"},"modified":"2017-02-21T09:39:11","modified_gmt":"2017-02-21T07:39:11","slug":"pedestrian-hit-train-wadeville-train-station","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2017\/02\/20\/pedestrian-hit-train-wadeville-train-station\/","title":{"rendered":"Pedestrian hit by train at Wadeville Train Station"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A pedestrian was declared dead on scene after being hit by a train at the Wadeville Train Station, on Monday evening.<\/p>\n<p>Pieter Rudolph, senior district manager, emergency planning for DEMS (Ekurhuleni Disaster and Emergency Management Services) told the GCN they received the call at 6.01pm and immediately dispatched a team from the Wadeville Fire Station.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>Information first received by DEMS was that two trains had collided but upon arrival they discovered that this was not the case and in fact a pedestrian had been struck by a train.<\/p>\n<p>Emergency services are currently awaiting the arrival of the Elsburg SAPS for further investigation into the matter.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Other articles you may be interested in:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/131555\/police-need-help-to-identify-man-killed-when-hit-by-train\/\">Man dies after being hit by train<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/112182\/young-woman-hit-by-train\/\">Young woman hit by train<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/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='fdc2bea4efd7ef9ccceef7d8ab6a6312'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SAPS to investigate accident.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":78,"featured_media":140348,"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":[7805,13719,979,969,2734,9163,2553,1267],"class_list":["post-145084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news-headlines","tag-dems","tag-ekurhuleni-disater-and-emergency-management-services","tag-germiston","tag-germiston-city-news","tag-melissa-hart","tag-pedestrian","tag-train","tag-wadeville"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Local news"},"tag_labels":["DEMS","ekurhuleni disater and emergency management services","germiston","germiston city news","melissa hart","pedestrian","train","wadeville"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145084","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\/78"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145084\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/140348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}