{"id":123526,"date":"2020-05-20T08:51:28","date_gmt":"2020-05-20T06:51:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/?p=123526"},"modified":"2020-05-20T08:51:28","modified_gmt":"2020-05-20T06:51:28","slug":"driver-narrowly-escapes-death-in-train-accident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/news-headlines\/2020\/05\/20\/driver-narrowly-escapes-death-in-train-accident\/","title":{"rendered":"Driver narrowly escapes death in train accident"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to information, the accident occurred on Saturday 16 May at around 06:00 at a railway crossing near the Pan Silo\u2019s.<\/p>\n<p>An eyewitness confirmed that the driver was injured but walked away with minor injuries.<\/p>\n<p>Celine Morolong from the Railway Safety Regulator confirmed that the accident, involving a private vehicle and a freight train, was reported to them.<\/p>\n<p>She could not provide further details before deadline.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A man had a narrow escape after he walked away with only slight injuries when his vehicle collided with a train. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8164,"featured_media":123527,"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":[10010,24831,24832,12898,18181,24833,24834,10333],"class_list":["post-123526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news-headlines","tag-local-news","tag-locomotive-accidents","tag-man-narrowly-escapes-death-after-train-accident","tag-middelburg-news","tag-train-accidents","tag-train-collisions","tag-train-strikes-vehicle-at-pan-silos","tag-trusted-news"],"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Local news"},"tag_labels":["local news","locomotive accidents","man narrowly escapes death after train accident","middelburg news","train accidents","train collisions","train strikes vehicle at Pan Silo's","trusted news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123526","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=123526"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123526\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/123527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}