{"id":110447,"date":"2020-02-23T12:22:37","date_gmt":"2020-02-23T10:22:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/?p=110447"},"modified":"2020-02-23T12:26:47","modified_gmt":"2020-02-23T10:26:47","slug":"kranspoort-pass-closed-acid-truck-accident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/news-headlines\/2020\/02\/23\/kranspoort-pass-closed-acid-truck-accident\/","title":{"rendered":"Kranspoort pass closed after acid truck accident"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This after a truck transporting acid crashed in the Kranspoort pass between Middelburg and Groblersdal near Loskop Dam.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-110449\" src=\"https:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/92\/2020\/02\/kranspoort1-520x400.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"520\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dwu32cgxelq1c.cloudfront.net\/local_newspapers\/sites\/92\/2020\/02\/kranspoort1-520x400.jpeg 520w, https:\/\/dwu32cgxelq1c.cloudfront.net\/local_newspapers\/sites\/92\/2020\/02\/kranspoort1-300x231.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 520px) 100vw, 520px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>According to a witness on the scene, two people passed away and the road surface is covered with acid.<\/p>\n<p>Unconfirmed reports have it that the pass might be closed for several hours to allow for clean-up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Motorists planning on using the N11 between Middelburg and Groblersdal are advised to make alternative arrangements to avoid the Kranspoort pass.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5031,"featured_media":110448,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"Jana Boshoff","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2],"tags":[14258,4549,1215,1231,6791,21966,3809,8619],"class_list":["post-110447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news-headlines","tag-acid-truck","tag-closed","tag-groblersdal","tag-kranspoort","tag-loskop","tag-middelburg","tag-n11","tag-traffic-update"],"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Local news"},"tag_labels":["acid truck","closed","Groblersdal","Kranspoort","Loskop","middelburg","N11","traffic update"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110447","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\/5031"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110447\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/110448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}