{"id":155103,"date":"2017-06-26T15:27:51","date_gmt":"2017-06-26T13:27:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/155103\/latest-drunk-driver-not-pedestrian-caused-deadly-r21-truck-crach\/"},"modified":"2017-06-27T08:45:04","modified_gmt":"2017-06-27T06:45:04","slug":"latest-drunk-driver-not-pedestrian-caused-deadly-r21-truck-crach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2017\/06\/26\/latest-drunk-driver-not-pedestrian-caused-deadly-r21-truck-crach\/","title":{"rendered":"LATEST: A &#8216;very drunk&#8217; driver and not pedestrian caused deadly R21 truck crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A \u201cvery drunk\u201d driver and not a pedestrian, was allegedly the cause of the accident on the R21 on Saturday morning in which two people were killed.<\/p>\n<p>Chief-Supt Wilfred Kgasago, EMPD spokesman, on Monday morning said: \u201cI can confirm that the Mazda Etude driver was very drunk and was arrested. Charges of culpable homicide have been added. No mention of a pedestrian was ever made.\u201d<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>According to an eyewitness, the driver of the Etude pulled in front of one of the trucks, causing it to lose control and crash through the barriers into oncoming traffic.<\/p>\n<p>ER24 over the weekend reported the accident, involving two trucks and three cars, could have been caused by a pedestrian running across the highway.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>Two people were killed and seven others injured in the multiple vehicle collision.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Also read:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <a href=\"http:\/\/kemptonexpress.co.za\/151258\/update-indications-pedestrian-caused-fatal-r21-accident\/\" target=\"_blank\">UPDATE: Indications are pedestrian caused fatal R21 accident<\/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='186b391c714e3f2a1e22a37b73dad4e9'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two people were killed and seven others injured.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2289,"featured_media":155104,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"Kempton Express","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2],"tags":[1824,1090,14633,2060,14622,2276],"class_list":["post-155103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news-headlines","tag-er24","tag-fatal-accident","tag-kempton-accident","tag-kempton-express","tag-r21","tag-truck-accident"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Local news"},"tag_labels":["ER24","fatal accident","kempton accident","kempton express","r21","truck accident"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155103","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\/2289"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155103\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/155104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}