{"id":92094,"date":"2015-06-18T10:23:00","date_gmt":"2015-06-18T08:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/92094\/be-vigilant-on-the-roads\/"},"modified":"2015-06-18T10:19:39","modified_gmt":"2015-06-18T08:19:39","slug":"be-vigilant-on-the-roads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/opinion-edition\/2015\/06\/18\/be-vigilant-on-the-roads\/","title":{"rendered":"Be vigilant on the roads"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8221;Anonymous&#8221;, Dawnview, writes:<\/p>\n<p>While travelling on the back road from Elsburg towards Reiger Park, last month, I noticed that a dog had been run over.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>I had to turn around and go back.<\/p>\n<p>I was hoping that the dog wouldn\u2019t be run over again as motorists flew down that road, not adhering to the speed limit.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>Luckily when I got to the Alsatian, it was still alive, but unfortunately it couldn\u2019t move, as its one front leg and two back legs were injured.<\/p>\n<p>I directed the traffic away from the dog and a woman by the name of Anga stopped to help me.<\/p>\n<p>A man came to our rescue and helped to pick up the dog and put it in my car.<\/p>\n<p>I took the dog to the Benoni SPCA, where it was later discovered that it had a broken back and front legs.<\/p>\n<p>The SPCA couldn\u2019t help it and they had to put it down.<\/p>\n<p>This broke my heart as you could see it wasn\u2019t a stray dog and had probably run after its owner.<\/p>\n<p>I would like to thank the two good Samaritans for coming to my rescue, as I didn\u2019t know how to lift the dog into my car without being bitten; she was in a lot of pain.<\/p>\n<p>It is just unfortunate that I don\u2019t know their names but they helped me a lot and I appreciate it.<\/p>\n<p>I am also reaching out to motorists to be on the lookout for stray dogs in the area.<\/p>\n<p>I have seen quite a few dogs killed next to the road in this area, which is truly heartbreaking.<\/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='ee3b540acbaf6c0da0fce68057fa1c99'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speed kills dogs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":91088,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,6],"tags":[3594,1318,1106,979,969,1208,1217,2749,982],"class_list":["post-92094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-letters","category-opinion-edition","tag-dawnview","tag-elsburg","tag-gcn","tag-germiston","tag-germiston-city-news","tag-letter","tag-letters-2","tag-puleng-sekabate","tag-spca"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"Opinion","SubCategory":"Letters"},"tag_labels":["dawnview","elsburg","GCN","germiston","germiston city news","letter","letters","Puleng Sekabate","SPCA"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92094","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=92094"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92094\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/91088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}