{"id":123620,"date":"2020-05-22T18:26:50","date_gmt":"2020-05-22T16:26:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/?p=123620"},"modified":"2020-05-22T18:26:50","modified_gmt":"2020-05-22T16:26:50","slug":"traffic-chaos-on-r555-after-train-bridge-accident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/news-headlines\/2020\/05\/22\/traffic-chaos-on-r555-after-train-bridge-accident\/","title":{"rendered":"Traffic chaos on R555 after train bridge accident"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Motorists told of a total disregard for traffic rules with cars driving into oncoming lanes from both sides of the accident scene.<\/p>\n<p>One motorist said that it took him two hours to turn around and get back to Middelburg once he realised the road was blocked.<\/p>\n<p>Details about the accident and injuries will follow at a later stage.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Several motorists have reported chaos on the R555, where traffic was severely backed up after a truck accident at the train bridge.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8164,"featured_media":123621,"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":[12112,24875,21966,6127,1026,16276,8619,7339],"class_list":["post-123620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news-headlines","tag-accident-on-r555","tag-middelbirg","tag-middelburg","tag-middleburg","tag-r555","tag-traffic-jam","tag-traffic-update","tag-truck-accident"],"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Local news"},"tag_labels":["Accident on R555","middelbirg","middelburg","Middleburg","R555","traffic jam","traffic update","truck accident"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123620","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=123620"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123620\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/123621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}