{"id":89343,"date":"2015-05-14T13:30:00","date_gmt":"2015-05-14T11:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/89343\/biker-rushed-to-hospital-with-critical-injuries-after-accident\/"},"modified":"2015-05-14T16:07:43","modified_gmt":"2015-05-14T14:07:43","slug":"biker-rushed-to-hospital-with-critical-injuries-after-accident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2015\/05\/14\/biker-rushed-to-hospital-with-critical-injuries-after-accident\/","title":{"rendered":"Motorcyclist critical after crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man is in a critical condition following an accident on Simon Bekker Road, near Lower Boksburg Road, in Germiston, on Thursday morning.<\/p>\n<p>Netcare 911 paramedics arrived on the scene and found a motorcyclist lying on the road.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>The driver of the vehicle Marie van Zyl told the GCN that the motorcyclist lost control of his motorbike for some reason and swerved into her vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt happened so fast and I feel really sorry for the man, there was no chance for me to avoid the collision,\u201d said van Zyl.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>Upon assessment of the 27-year-old motorcyclist, paramedics found that the man had sustained critical injuries.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe injured man was treated on the scene, placed on a trauma board and rushed to hospital for the urgent medical care he required,\u201d said Santi Steinmann, media liaison officer for Netcare 911.<\/p>\n<p>The occupants in the motor vehicle did not have to be treated on scene for any visible injuries.<\/p>\n<p>Other accident articles:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/84698\/driver-searches-for-woman-who-witnessed-accident\/\" target=\"_blank\">Driver searches for woman who witnessed accident<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/78775\/teenager-dies-in-accident-six-others-injured\/\" target=\"_blank\">Teenager dies in accident, six others injured<\/a><\/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='cde75f605bcb2d89dcc9d61d0fb39174'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biker rushed to hospital with critical injuries after accident .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":89345,"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":[1130,6552,1803,979,969,2734,7386,2111],"class_list":["post-89343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news-headlines","tag-accident","tag-collision","tag-crash","tag-germiston","tag-germiston-city-news","tag-melissa-hart","tag-motorcyclist","tag-netcare-911"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Local news"},"tag_labels":["accident","collision","crash","germiston","germiston city news","melissa hart","motorcyclist","netcare 911"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89343","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=89343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89343\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}