{"id":96655,"date":"2015-08-11T09:55:00","date_gmt":"2015-08-11T07:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/96655\/fifteen-injured-in-minibus-accident\/"},"modified":"2015-08-11T11:12:04","modified_gmt":"2015-08-11T09:12:04","slug":"fifteen-injured-in-minibus-accident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2015\/08\/11\/fifteen-injured-in-minibus-accident\/","title":{"rendered":"Fifteen injured in minibus accident"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fifteen people were injured in an accident, this morning (August 11).<\/p>\n<p>The crash took place on Doak Street, near Webber Road, in the Klippoortje Agricultural Holdings.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>\u201cNetcare 911 paramedics and other services arrived on the scene and found that a minibus had crashed into a tree,\u201d said Santi Steinmann, media liaison officer for Netcare 911.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cExact details surrounding the cause of the crash and preceding events will remain the subject of a police investigation.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>\u201cReports from the scene indicate that the minibus driver was trying to avoid other vehicles as its brakes failed, resulting in the minibus crashing against a tree while try he tried to negotiate a turn.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Upon assessment of all the occupants, paramedics found that 15 people had sustained injuries ranging from minor to serious.<\/p>\n<p>All the injured patients were treated on the scene before being transported to hospital for further medical care and treatment.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Other articles you may be interested in:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/89498\/death-toll-rises-in-n17-highway-taxi-accident\/\" target=\"_blank\">Death toll rises in N17 highway taxi accident<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/91392\/no-one-injured-in-kraft-road-accident\/\" target=\"_blank\">No one injured in Kraft Road 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='7a3103d455a0879a4aa75c181c2f44c5'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fifteen people taken to hospital after accident.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":96665,"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":[1130,1803,979,969,8138,2734,8139,2111],"class_list":["post-96655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news-headlines","tag-accident","tag-crash","tag-germiston","tag-germiston-city-news","tag-klippoortje-agricultural-holdings","tag-melissa-hart","tag-minibus-accident","tag-netcare-911"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Local news"},"tag_labels":["accident","crash","germiston","germiston city news","klippoortje agricultural holdings","melissa hart","minibus accident","netcare 911"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96655","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=96655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96655\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/96665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}