{"id":89491,"date":"2015-05-15T12:05:34","date_gmt":"2015-05-15T10:05:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/?p=89491"},"modified":"2015-05-15T12:51:18","modified_gmt":"2015-05-15T10:51:18","slug":"two-confirmed-dead-in-n17-taxi-accident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2015\/05\/15\/two-confirmed-dead-in-n17-taxi-accident\/","title":{"rendered":"Two confirmed dead in N17 taxi accident"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two people have been confirmed dead in a taxi accident which took place on the N17 west highway, near the Osborn Road on-ramp, this morning.<\/p>\n<p>Kobeli Mokheseng, spokesman for\u00a0 the EMPD told the GCN that a white Toyota Quantum minibus taxi was the only vehicle involved in the accident.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>\u201cTwo people were confirmed dead on the scene and a medical helicopter had to land to transport others to hospital.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt this stage we do not know the exact number of patients.\u201d<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>The N17 highway had to be closed from both directions to allow the helicopter to land.<\/p>\n<p>A case of culpable homicide has been opened at the Elsburg Police Station for investigation.<\/p>\n<p>More details will follow once they become available.<\/p>\n<p>Related articles:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/89483\/taxi-accident-on-n17\/\" target=\"_blank\">Taxi accident on N17<\/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='6bb1e24358eb6dc185ee07de642bd042'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Helicopter lands to transport patients to hospital.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":78,"featured_media":89492,"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":[1130,979,2188,7391,1267],"class_list":["post-89491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news-headlines","tag-accident","tag-germiston","tag-n17-highway","tag-taxi-accident","tag-wadeville"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Local news"},"tag_labels":["accident","germiston","n17 highway","taxi accident","wadeville"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89491","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\/78"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89491\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}