{"id":49530,"date":"2013-12-02T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-12-02T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/49530\/multi-vehicle-collision-leaves-one-dead\/"},"modified":"2013-12-02T09:26:38","modified_gmt":"2013-12-02T07:26:38","slug":"multi-vehicle-collision-leaves-one-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2013\/12\/02\/multi-vehicle-collision-leaves-one-dead\/","title":{"rendered":"Multi-vehicle collision leaves one dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A person died in a multi-vehicle accident in Germiston, last Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>It is alleged that a truck had broken down on the N3 highway, at the M2 split in Germiston, at about 8am, and three other vehicles collided with it.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>A truck crashed into the back of the broken down truck, followed by a Hyundai bakkie, which collided with the second truck, and a third truck, which smashed into the back of the Hyundai bakkie.<\/p>\n<p>The driver of the bakkie was killed, while his brother, who was sitting next to him, suffered only minor injuries.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>The driver of the truck that is thought to have broken down initially, was left with critical head injuries and both patients were transported to hospital for treatment.<\/p>\n<p>The details leading up to the collision are still under investigation.<\/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='c4d219d519a87e6dfe9d8b7a5bf3d352'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Broken down truck on the N3 leads to accident.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":49607,"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":[1130,1012,1003,988,979,1747,999],"class_list":["post-49530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news-headlines","tag-accident","tag-east-rand","tag-ekurhuleni","tag-empd","tag-germiston","tag-n3","tag-police"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Local news"},"tag_labels":["accident","East Rand","Ekurhuleni","empd","germiston","N3","police"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49530","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=49530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49530\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}