{"id":17050,"date":"2014-08-25T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-08-24T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/echonews.sites.caxton.co.za\/17050\/truck-ploughs-through-cars-people\/"},"modified":"2014-08-25T13:03:56","modified_gmt":"2014-08-25T11:03:56","slug":"truck-ploughs-through-cars-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/news-headlines\/2014\/08\/25\/truck-ploughs-through-cars-people\/","title":{"rendered":"Truck ploughs through cars, people"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An eyewitness said that traffic was backed up for kilometres and that they had to wait for the road to open until well after dark.<\/p>\n<p>Col. Ronel Otto, Limpopo police spokesperson, said that four trucks, two bakkies and one car were damaged during the incident.<\/p>\n<p>The two men, who were part of a team doing repair work to the badly damaged R555 have been identified as Michael Mabuda and Thabetho Andile.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_17051\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-17051\" style=\"width: 423px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/92\/2014\/08\/BJAUG34-_526512886.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-17051\" src=\"https:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/92\/2014\/08\/BJAUG34-_526512886-423x317.jpg\" alt=\"Traffic backed up after the accident.\" width=\"423\" height=\"317\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dwu32cgxelq1c.cloudfront.net\/local_newspapers\/sites\/92\/2014\/08\/BJAUG34-_526512886-423x317.jpg 423w, https:\/\/dwu32cgxelq1c.cloudfront.net\/local_newspapers\/sites\/92\/2014\/08\/BJAUG34-_526512886-200x150.jpg 200w, https:\/\/dwu32cgxelq1c.cloudfront.net\/local_newspapers\/sites\/92\/2014\/08\/BJAUG34-_526512886.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 423px) 100vw, 423px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-17051\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Traffic backed up after the accident.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two people died when a transport truck&#8217;s breaks failed and it ploughed into a line of cars waiting at a stop and go near the Modderspruit bridge on the R555.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":17052,"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":[],"class_list":["post-17050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news-headlines"],"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Local news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17050","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=17050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17050\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}