{"id":106675,"date":"2019-12-13T08:26:01","date_gmt":"2019-12-13T06:26:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/?p=106675"},"modified":"2019-12-13T08:26:01","modified_gmt":"2019-12-13T06:26:01","slug":"hand-amputated-n4-accident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/news-headlines\/2019\/12\/13\/hand-amputated-n4-accident\/","title":{"rendered":"Hand amputated in N4 accident"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The accident occurred just before the Arnot off-ramp at around 18:00 when the wheel of the vehicle they were travelling in came off and the double cab bakkie, overloaded with produce, veered into oncoming traffic.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-106677\" src=\"https:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/92\/2019\/12\/oorlaai-2-Copy-520x400.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"520\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dwu32cgxelq1c.cloudfront.net\/local_newspapers\/sites\/92\/2019\/12\/oorlaai-2-Copy-520x400.jpg 520w, https:\/\/dwu32cgxelq1c.cloudfront.net\/local_newspapers\/sites\/92\/2019\/12\/oorlaai-2-Copy-300x231.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 520px) 100vw, 520px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The vehicle which was traveling in the direction of Nelspruit, had five occupants in it and had rolled during the incident. No other vehicles were involved.<\/p>\n<p>According to first respondents, one of the occupants suffered an amputation of their hand. One of the lanes had to be closed as emergency response personnel cleared the scene.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Four people were injured, two of which were left in critical condition, after an accident on the N4 yesterday evening.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8164,"featured_media":106676,"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":[19575,902,22401,22400,10010,12898,10450,6935,10333],"class_list":["post-106675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news-headlines","tag-accident-at-arnot-offramp","tag-accident-on-n4","tag-four-injured-in-n4-accident","tag-hand-amputated-in-n4-accident","tag-local-news","tag-middelburg-news","tag-middelburg-nuus","tag-road-accidents","tag-trusted-news"],"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Local news"},"tag_labels":["accident at arnot offramp","Accident on N4","four injured in N4 accident","hand amputated in N4 accident","local news","middelburg news","middelburg nuus","road accidents","trusted news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106675","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=106675"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106675\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/106676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}