{"id":111213,"date":"2020-03-02T06:45:22","date_gmt":"2020-03-02T04:45:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/?p=111213"},"modified":"2020-03-02T06:45:22","modified_gmt":"2020-03-02T04:45:22","slug":"walter-sisulu-street-closed-fatal-accident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/news-headlines\/2020\/03\/02\/walter-sisulu-street-closed-fatal-accident\/","title":{"rendered":"Walter Sisulu Street closed after fatal accident"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The collision involved two vehicles &#8211; one Mercedes van and a Blue Ribbon delivery vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>According to eye witnesses at the scene, the Mercedes mini bus was travelling across Dr Beyers Naude Drive when the delivery truck skipped a red traffic light and collided with the mini bus.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-111214\" src=\"https:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/92\/2020\/03\/hof-ong-3-LL-ZN-520x400.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"520\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dwu32cgxelq1c.cloudfront.net\/local_newspapers\/sites\/92\/2020\/03\/hof-ong-3-LL-ZN-520x400.jpg 520w, https:\/\/dwu32cgxelq1c.cloudfront.net\/local_newspapers\/sites\/92\/2020\/03\/hof-ong-3-LL-ZN-300x231.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 520px) 100vw, 520px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>According to information, fatalities have been reported at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>Several injured passengers were treated at the scene by emergency personnel.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-111216\" src=\"https:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/92\/2020\/03\/hof-ong-1-LL-ZN-520x400.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"520\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dwu32cgxelq1c.cloudfront.net\/local_newspapers\/sites\/92\/2020\/03\/hof-ong-1-LL-ZN-520x400.jpg 520w, https:\/\/dwu32cgxelq1c.cloudfront.net\/local_newspapers\/sites\/92\/2020\/03\/hof-ong-1-LL-ZN-300x231.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 520px) 100vw, 520px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A section of Walter Sisulu Street had to be closed in the early hours of this morning after a fatal accident occurred on the corner of Walter Sisulu- and Dr Beyers Naude Drive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8164,"featured_media":111215,"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":[23628,23630,1424,12454,10010,12898,6935,10333,23629],"class_list":["post-111213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news-headlines","tag-accident-in-walter-sisulu-street","tag-accident-on-corner-of-walter-sisulu-and-beyers-naude","tag-accidents","tag-accidents-in-middelburg","tag-local-news","tag-middelburg-news","tag-road-accidents","tag-trusted-news","tag-walter-sisulu-street-closed-after-fatal-accident"],"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Local news"},"tag_labels":["accident in Walter Sisulu Street","accident on corner of walter sisulu and beyers naude","accidents","Accidents in Middelburg","local news","middelburg news","road accidents","trusted news","walter sisulu street closed after fatal accident"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111213","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=111213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111213\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}