{"id":93497,"date":"2015-07-07T17:53:38","date_gmt":"2015-07-07T15:53:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/?p=93497"},"modified":"2015-07-07T17:53:38","modified_gmt":"2015-07-07T15:53:38","slug":"truck-driver-severely-burnt-in-highway-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2015\/07\/07\/truck-driver-severely-burnt-in-highway-crash\/","title":{"rendered":"Truck driver severely burnt in highway crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An Ekurhuleni Disaster and Emergency Management Services (DEMS) rescue team from Bedfordview, responded to an accident on the N12\/R24 highway split this morning.<\/p>\n<p>Two articulated trucks were involved in a crash.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>\u201cThe call was received at about 3am and on arrival it was found that the trucks were on fire as a result of the collision,\u201d said William Ntladi, media liaison officer for DEMS.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cApparently the trucks were driving in the same lane in the same direction before the accident happened.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>\u201cThe collision happened as a result of the rear truck crashing into the back of the leading one and both erupted in flames.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The driver of the rear truck was transported to Milpark Hospital for further medical treatment after sustaining severe burn wounds.<\/p>\n<p>The driver of the truck in front escaped unharmed.<\/p>\n<p>All four lanes on the east bound highway were closed to traffic.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe actual cause of the crash is still undetermined.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEMPD officers are currently investigating,\u201d Ntladi said.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Other crash articles:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/89526\/police-to-investigate-n17-accident\/\" target=\"_blank\">Police to investigate N17 accident<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/89313\/no-injuries-sustained-in-accident\/\" target=\"_blank\">No injuries sustained in Sunnyridge accident<\/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='0ec3e118a9423fe80b02330bd91963be'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Highway closed after trucks collide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":78,"featured_media":93498,"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":[1781,6552,1803,7805,2092,979,969,2734,7804],"class_list":["post-93497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news-headlines","tag-bedfordview","tag-collision","tag-crash","tag-dems","tag-ekurhuleni-disaster-and-emergency-management-services","tag-germiston","tag-germiston-city-news","tag-melissa-hart","tag-truck-crash"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Local news"},"tag_labels":["Bedfordview","collision","crash","DEMS","Ekurhuleni Disaster and Emergency Management Services","germiston","germiston city news","melissa hart","truck crash"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93497","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=93497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93497\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}