{"id":16730,"date":"2014-08-19T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-08-18T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/echonews.sites.caxton.co.za\/16730\/mother-child-dies\/"},"modified":"2014-08-27T08:43:23","modified_gmt":"2014-08-27T06:43:23","slug":"mother-child-dies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/news-headlines\/2014\/08\/19\/mother-child-dies\/","title":{"rendered":"Mother, child dies"},"content":{"rendered":"

The white Nissan Sentra looked like it was chewed up by a metal eating monster, with a piece of the car thrown on either side of the busy freeway.<\/p>\n

In between the two mangled pieces of metal lay three seemingly lifeless bodies.<\/p>\n

A woman and child were declared dead on the scene whilst a man was rushed to hospital in a critical condition.<\/p>\n

The accident happened on Saturday morning just before 08:00, 20 km outside Middelburg just after the Middelburg dam.<\/p>\n

These images are not for sensitive readers.<\/p>\n

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The lifeless body of a mother and her child was part of the scene of destruction left after a car collided with a truck on the N4. PHOTO: Jana Boshoff.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

An eyewitness, Henk Pienaar, was driving 30 m behind the Nissan Sentra when the accident occurred.<\/p>\n

“I cannot tell you why it happened. We were both driving in the fast lane and the car just suddenly swerved into the oncoming lane and into the truck.”<\/p>\n

The car collided with the side of the truck and was torn into pieces.<\/p>\n

Mr Pienaar said that he had to break hard to avoid colliding with the car. “My skid marks are still visible on the road.”<\/p>\n

\u2022 The deceased were not identified at the time of going to press.<\/p>\n

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The Nissan Sentra in which the family traveled was torn in two.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A mother and child lost their lives when a car collided with a truck on the N4 Saturday morning 16 August.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":16731,"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":[1025,1767,1448,1049,2201,901,900,2276],"class_list":["post-16730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news-headlines","tag-accident","tag-arrive-alive","tag-crash","tag-danger","tag-fatal","tag-n4","tag-ongeluk","tag-trac-route"],"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Local news"},"tag_labels":["accident","arrive alive","crash","danger","fatal","n4","ongeluk","Trac Route"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16730","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=16730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16730\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}