{"id":103835,"date":"2019-10-21T17:50:00","date_gmt":"2019-10-21T15:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/?p=103835"},"modified":"2019-10-24T11:20:48","modified_gmt":"2019-10-24T09:20:48","slug":"thick-smoke-n4-leads-multi-vehicle-accident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/news-headlines\/2019\/10\/21\/thick-smoke-n4-leads-multi-vehicle-accident\/","title":{"rendered":"Thick smoke on N4 leads to multi-vehicle accident"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The accident occurred about five km from Middelburg on the N4, westbound, when heavy smoke along the highway affected visibility.<\/p>\n<p>The smoke came from a fire that spread on a farm situated near the highway.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-103836\" src=\"https:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/92\/2019\/10\/nine-2-LL-ZN-520x400.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"520\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dwu32cgxelq1c.cloudfront.net\/local_newspapers\/sites\/92\/2019\/10\/nine-2-LL-ZN-520x400.jpg 520w, https:\/\/dwu32cgxelq1c.cloudfront.net\/local_newspapers\/sites\/92\/2019\/10\/nine-2-LL-ZN-300x231.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 520px) 100vw, 520px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Several people were transported to hospital for medical treatment, but fortunately no serious injuries were reported.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An accident involving nine vehicles took place on the N4 this afternoon. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8164,"featured_media":103837,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"Tiisetso Malunga","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2],"tags":[1025,12454,10010,12898,19058,21512,21511,10333],"class_list":["post-103835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news-headlines","tag-accident","tag-accidents-in-middelburg","tag-local-news","tag-middelburg-news","tag-multi-vehicle-accident-on-n4","tag-multi-vehicle-accident-on-n4-near-middelburg-dam","tag-mva-on-n4","tag-trusted-news"],"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Local news"},"tag_labels":["accident","Accidents in Middelburg","local news","middelburg news","multi vehicle accident on N4","multi vehicle accident on n4 near Middelburg dam","MVA on N4","trusted news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103835","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=103835"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103835\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/103837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}