{"id":50856,"date":"2013-12-19T08:30:00","date_gmt":"2013-12-19T06:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/50856\/community-asked-to-join-the-fight-against-road-carnageorstop-the-road-carnage\/"},"modified":"2013-12-19T08:58:37","modified_gmt":"2013-12-19T06:58:37","slug":"community-asked-to-join-the-fight-against-road-carnageorstop-the-road-carnage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2013\/12\/19\/community-asked-to-join-the-fight-against-road-carnageorstop-the-road-carnage\/","title":{"rendered":"Stop the road carnage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Enough is enough.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Let us all work together in helping one another as road-users in ensuring that this festive season we don&#8217;t end up counting corpses and maimed bodies, but blessings and happy moments with friends and family,&#8221; said MMC for community safety Clr Mthuthuzeli Siboza.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>This impassioned plea came during the launch of the Ekurhuleni festive season law enforcement campaign, held in Springs recently.<\/p>\n<p>EMPD and Gauteng traffic officers conducted a roadblock on Tonk Meter Road between the N17 and Rietfontein Road where road safety awareness pamphlets were issued to both motorists and pedestrians.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>It is common knowledge that, an avoidable, huge number of lives are lost on a daily basis on our roads and that its consequences are far-reaching both socially and economically.<\/p>\n<p>In this light road safety becomes everybody&#8217;s responsibility.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The community must make a concerted effort to assist authorities in the waging of this war against road carnage by observing the traffic laws and acting responsibly on our roads.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Let us all as drivers, cyclists and pedestrians alike be respectful of the rules of the road and be considerate to one another in order to avert tragic situations,&#8221; added Siboza.<\/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='63151891d7f294e4f77e8ddc5f75114b'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Community asked to join the fight against road carnage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":50857,"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":[1885,989,1012,1003,988,2384,979,999,2512,2513,2514,998],"class_list":["post-50856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news-headlines","tag-christmas","tag-crime","tag-east-rand","tag-ekurhuleni","tag-empd","tag-festive-season","tag-germiston","tag-police","tag-road","tag-road-safety","tag-rules-of-the-road","tag-saps"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Local news"},"tag_labels":["Christmas","crime","East Rand","Ekurhuleni","empd","festive season","germiston","police","road","road safety","rules of the road","SAPS"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50856","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=50856"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50856\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}