{"id":15989,"date":"2014-08-04T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-08-03T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/echonews.sites.caxton.co.za\/15989\/merc-driver-to-court\/"},"modified":"2014-08-06T08:35:52","modified_gmt":"2014-08-06T06:35:52","slug":"merc-driver-to-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/news-headlines\/2014\/08\/04\/merc-driver-to-court\/","title":{"rendered":"Update: Merc driver to court"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The driver of the Mercedes with whom he collided, disappeared from the scene.<\/p>\n<p>He reported the accident hours later after he arrived at an emergency room for medical treatment.<\/p>\n<p>According to reports he claimed to have woken up in a veld near Hlalamnandi, confused and injured.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/13773\/father-dead-no-one-charged\/\">Almost six months after Mr Viljoen&#8217;s death, the driver of the other car has been summoned to appear in court.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Mr. Viljoen&#8217;s widow, Jacqui, claimed that she was phoned and threatened by the man whom she holds responsible for her husband&#8217;s death.<\/p>\n<p>She has since moved from their old home to a new address after the man allegedly visited her house and stood outside her gate hooting.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_15991\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15991\" style=\"width: 423px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/92\/2014\/08\/BJJUL100-_536254902.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-15991\" src=\"https:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/92\/2014\/08\/BJJUL100-_536254902-423x317.jpg\" alt=\"Gerald Viljoen lost his life in an accident whilst on his way to work. \" width=\"423\" height=\"317\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dwu32cgxelq1c.cloudfront.net\/local_newspapers\/sites\/92\/2014\/08\/BJJUL100-_536254902-423x317.jpg 423w, https:\/\/dwu32cgxelq1c.cloudfront.net\/local_newspapers\/sites\/92\/2014\/08\/BJJUL100-_536254902-200x150.jpg 200w, https:\/\/dwu32cgxelq1c.cloudfront.net\/local_newspapers\/sites\/92\/2014\/08\/BJJUL100-_536254902.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 423px) 100vw, 423px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-15991\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gerald Viljoen lost his life in an accident whilst on his way to work.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Mrs Viljoen also claims that she has been able to establish that he was driving without a licence at the time.<\/p>\n<p>The man has been identified by Middelburg Observer readers as the head of emergency services at a Power Station in the area.<\/p>\n<p>It has been confirmed that he is scheduled to appear in court on 28 August, two days before Gerald Viljoen would have turned 41.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are falling apart. I cannot sleep at night, my son is struggling in school. This is a nightmare. I know some of Gerald&#8217;s family say that they have forgiven the man who killed him. But I will only find peace once he is brought to justice,&#8221; Mrs Viljoen said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gerald Viljoen (40) lost his life in February this year during an accident on the Hendrina road.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":15990,"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":[2885,2],"tags":[1025,1448,1369,2194,2195],"class_list":["post-15989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-crime-news","category-news-headlines","tag-accident","tag-crash","tag-eskom","tag-kragstasie","tag-powerstations"],"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Crime News"},"tag_labels":["accident","crash","eskom","Kragstasie","Powerstations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15989","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=15989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15989\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}