{"id":96844,"date":"2015-08-13T13:40:00","date_gmt":"2015-08-13T11:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/96844\/man-critical-after-germiston-south-accident\/"},"modified":"2015-08-13T13:51:19","modified_gmt":"2015-08-13T11:51:19","slug":"man-critical-after-germiston-south-accident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2015\/08\/13\/man-critical-after-germiston-south-accident\/","title":{"rendered":"Man critical after Germiston South accident"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man is in a critical condition following a pedestrian accident on Joubert Street in Germiston South, on Thursday morning.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNetcare 911 paramedics arrived at the scene and found a man, believed to be in his twenties, lying on the roadway after he was knocked over by a motor vehicle,\u201d said Santi Steinmann, media liaison officer for Netcare 911.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>\u201cUpon assessment, paramedics found that the man had sustained multiple injuries and he was in a critical condition.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The injured man was treated on the scene, placed on a trauma board and rushed to hospital for the urgent medical treatment he required, under the care of an advanced life support paramedic.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>\u201cExact details surrounding the cause of the pedestrian accident and preceding events are unclear and will remain the subject of a police investigation,\u201d said Steinmann.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe driver of the motor vehicle was not injured during the accident.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Other articles you may be interested in:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/96655\/fifteen-injured-in-minibus-accident\/\" target=\"_blank\">Fifteen injured in minibus 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='fbfd3785c41f4978383f2a5754f33ea9'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pedestrian rushed to hospital after being knocked over.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":96848,"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":[1130,979,969,1219,2734,2111,8175],"class_list":["post-96844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news-headlines","tag-accident","tag-germiston","tag-germiston-city-news","tag-germiston-south","tag-melissa-hart","tag-netcare-911","tag-pedestrian-accident"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Local news"},"tag_labels":["accident","germiston","germiston city news","germiston south","melissa hart","netcare 911","pedestrian accident"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96844","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=96844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96844\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/96848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}