{"id":110728,"date":"2020-02-25T16:22:39","date_gmt":"2020-02-25T14:22:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/?p=110728"},"modified":"2020-02-25T16:22:39","modified_gmt":"2020-02-25T14:22:39","slug":"accident-walter-sisulu-protea-street-causes-traffic-congestion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/news-headlines\/2020\/02\/25\/accident-walter-sisulu-protea-street-causes-traffic-congestion\/","title":{"rendered":"Accident on Walter Sisulu- and Protea Street causes traffic congestion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The incident occurred shortly after 15:00.<\/p>\n<p>The passengers from the Iveco bus said their bus was turning into Protea Street from the Groblersdal Road (N11) when the truck abruptly turned into the same street without any indication.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-110729\" src=\"https:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/92\/2020\/02\/pro-1-Copy-520x400.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"520\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dwu32cgxelq1c.cloudfront.net\/local_newspapers\/sites\/92\/2020\/02\/pro-1-Copy-520x400.jpg 520w, https:\/\/dwu32cgxelq1c.cloudfront.net\/local_newspapers\/sites\/92\/2020\/02\/pro-1-Copy-300x231.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 520px) 100vw, 520px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>No injuries were reported.<\/p>\n<p>The accident has interrupted the traffic flow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An abnormal truck was involved in a collision with a 22-Seater Iveco bus on the corner of Walter Sisulu and Protea Street.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8164,"featured_media":110730,"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":[23550,12454,23551,10010,12898,10333],"class_list":["post-110728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news-headlines","tag-accident-on-protea-street","tag-accidents-in-middelburg","tag-bus-and-abnormal-load-accident","tag-local-news","tag-middelburg-news","tag-trusted-news"],"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Local news"},"tag_labels":["accident on protea street","Accidents in Middelburg","bus and abnormal load accident","local news","middelburg news","trusted news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110728","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=110728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110728\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/110730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}