{"id":11333,"date":"2014-05-28T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-05-27T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/echonews.sites.caxton.co.za\/11333\/three-killed-near-botshabelo\/"},"modified":"2014-06-02T12:34:54","modified_gmt":"2014-06-02T10:34:54","slug":"three-killed-near-botshabelo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/news-headlines\/2014\/05\/28\/three-killed-near-botshabelo\/","title":{"rendered":"Three killed near Botshabelo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The grey Renault Sedan was travelling from Loskop Dam towards Middelburg when just five kilometres outside town, near Botshabelo, the driver lost control and plunged into a bridge rail at the Keerom Spruit.<\/p>\n<p>All three occupants of the vehicle were killed instantly. One man was flung out of the vehicle together with the vehicle&#8217;s engine.<\/p>\n<p>The car eventually came to a standstill on its roof just a few metres from the spruit. The bodies of another man and woman both ended up on the front passenger seat.<\/p>\n<p>No other vehicles were involved in the collision.<\/p>\n<p>The reason behind the driver losing control is still under investigation. According to officials on Monday morning, all three deceased are yet to be identified.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A horrific car crash on the Groblersdal road on Saturday night claimed the lives of three people, two men and a woman, who are yet to be identified by their next of kin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":11334,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2],"tags":[1025,1448,21966],"class_list":["post-11333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news-headlines","tag-accident","tag-crash","tag-middelburg"],"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Local news"},"tag_labels":["accident","crash","middelburg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11333","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\/1848"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11333\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}