{"id":79753,"date":"2015-01-30T10:45:00","date_gmt":"2015-01-30T08:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/79753\/steel-cones-bring-n3-traffic-to-a-stand-still\/"},"modified":"2015-01-30T11:08:32","modified_gmt":"2015-01-30T09:08:32","slug":"steel-cones-bring-n3-traffic-to-a-stand-still","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2015\/01\/30\/steel-cones-bring-n3-traffic-to-a-stand-still\/","title":{"rendered":"Steel cones bring N3 traffic to a stand-still"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Commuters travelling north on the N3 this morning were in for a nasty surprise when traffic came to a stand-still.<\/p>\n<p>The delay was caused by a truck losing its load of steel cones.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>The truck, which was on route to Johannesburg from Newcastle with two trailers loaded with steel cones, swerved and applied emergency brakes in order to avoid an accident just before the Heidelberg off ramp.<\/p>\n<p>It was then that the steel cones fell off the trailer.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>The load of steel fell into both the right and left lanes of the highway, bringing traffic to a stand-still.<\/p>\n<p>Officials on scene were able to move the steel, allowing for only one lane to be closed.<\/p>\n<p>EMPD officials are still on scene, waiting for a crane to come and clear the steel cones from the highway.<\/p>\n<p>Traffic flow remains slow.<\/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='215e3971c39d79d75bc9e03df73abc2f'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Truck loses load on N3.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":79756,"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":[1130,977,8297,1012,1003,988,1106,979,969,2730,6440,6441,4587],"class_list":["post-79753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news-headlines","tag-accident","tag-children","tag-community-2","tag-east-rand","tag-ekurhuleni","tag-empd","tag-gcn","tag-germiston","tag-germiston-city-news","tag-leigh-hodgson","tag-losing-load","tag-road-closed","tag-truck"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Local news"},"tag_labels":["accident","children","community","East Rand","Ekurhuleni","empd","GCN","germiston","germiston city news","Leigh Hodgson","losing load","road closed","truck"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79753","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=79753"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79753\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}