{"id":103061,"date":"2019-10-09T16:10:25","date_gmt":"2019-10-09T14:10:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/?p=103061"},"modified":"2019-10-10T10:17:20","modified_gmt":"2019-10-10T08:17:20","slug":"update-death-toll-early-morning-crash-now-eight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/news-headlines\/2019\/10\/09\/update-death-toll-early-morning-crash-now-eight\/","title":{"rendered":"UPDATE: Death toll for early morning crash now up to eight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The collision involved three vehicles on the N4, just after the Bethal off-ramp, when the driver of a Hyundai H1 lost control and drove into oncoming traffic.<\/p>\n<p>The eastbound lanes of the N4 were closed for hours as emergency personnel investigated the scene, where seven fatalities were counted at the time.<br \/>\nBy 08:00, the fire brigade was still actively freeing entrapped occupants from some of the vehicles, by using the jaws of life.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-103035\" src=\"https:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/92\/2019\/10\/acc-4-Copy-520x400.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"520\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dwu32cgxelq1c.cloudfront.net\/local_newspapers\/sites\/92\/2019\/10\/acc-4-Copy-520x400.jpg 520w, https:\/\/dwu32cgxelq1c.cloudfront.net\/local_newspapers\/sites\/92\/2019\/10\/acc-4-Copy-300x231.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 520px) 100vw, 520px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Information was received that one of the injured casualties, who was rushed to hospital, later succumbed to their injuries.<\/p>\n<p>The death toll now stands at eight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The amount of people who were killed in this morning&#8217;s crash has risen with one more fatality.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8164,"featured_media":103033,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"Sjani Campher","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2],"tags":[1424,14062,21283,21284,21285,10010,12898,15567,7496,21282,2023,8619,10333],"class_list":["post-103061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news-headlines","tag-accidents","tag-accidents-on-the-n4","tag-death-toll-of-early-morning-crash-rises-to-eigh","tag-eight-people-killed-in-early-morning-n4-crash","tag-eighth-person-dies-in-n4-crash","tag-local-news","tag-middelburg-news","tag-middelburg-traffic","tag-road-fatalities","tag-seven-people-killed-in-n4-accident","tag-traffic","tag-traffic-update","tag-trusted-news"],"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Local news"},"tag_labels":["accidents","accidents on the N4","death toll of early morning crash rises to eigh","eight people killed in early morning N4 crash","eighth person dies in N4 crash","local news","middelburg news","middelburg traffic","road fatalities","seven people killed in n4 accident","traffic","traffic update","trusted news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8164"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103061"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103061\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/103033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}