{"id":62514,"date":"2014-06-23T14:15:00","date_gmt":"2014-06-23T12:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/62514\/truck-overturns\/"},"modified":"2014-06-23T14:53:46","modified_gmt":"2014-06-23T12:53:46","slug":"truck-overturns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2014\/06\/23\/truck-overturns\/","title":{"rendered":"Truck overturns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The GCN were called the scene of an overturned truck, this morning (June 23).<\/p>\n<p>The truck, which appeared to be transporting scrap metal, overturned on Barbara Road, in the Woodmere area.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>The GCN was able to reach the EMPD for comment.<\/p>\n<p>Thabiso Makgato, responding on behalf Wilfred Kgasago, spokesman for the EMPD, told the GCN: &#8220;The driver of the truck suffered serious injuries to the head and chest, and was taken to Union Hospital for treatment.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;The accident is confirmed to have happened at 10.45am this morning.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;EMPD officers are still on the scene and Barbara Road is still closed to traffic.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A full investigation has been launched into the cause of the accident.&#8221;<\/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='13e2d1e935fde5d1e38bd68af16e1b3f'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More details emerge from Barbara Road accident.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":62515,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"Leigh Hodgson","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2],"tags":[1130,3789,8297,1012,1003,988,979,2730],"class_list":["post-62514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news-headlines","tag-accident","tag-barbara-road","tag-community-2","tag-east-rand","tag-ekurhuleni","tag-empd","tag-germiston","tag-leigh-hodgson"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Local news"},"tag_labels":["accident","barbara road","community","East Rand","Ekurhuleni","empd","germiston","Leigh Hodgson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62514","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=62514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62514\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}